i probably don’t need to tell y’all this but
OMGGGG CATCHING FIRE COMES OUT TODAY!!!!!!!
it just goes to show that enough people haven’t read “hunger games” cos THERE SHOULD’VE BEEN MIDNIGHT BOOK RELEASE PARTIES EVERYWHERE! i’m talking harry potter level, you guys!
dear book sellers of austin: you have *seriously* dropped the ball. like, instead of reading a good-but-it’s-no-catching-fire book in bed last night, i should’ve been jumping up and down like a crazed jonas brothers fan and sporting a “PEETA 4-EVS” homemade bedazzled t-shirt with a zillion other HG-obsessed people.
even though i *didn’t* attend a party (or host one… um… my bad?), i thought i would share my ideas for the Ultimate Catching Fire party, in case anyone has an extra few thousand bucks and feels like giving me the best night of my life (PAGE ME):
1) ARCHERY PRACTICE, YO! complete with apple-mouthed pig targets.
2) cake decorating stations so you can frost it up just like peeta
3) tree climbing lessons so you can fly around like rue (bonus: learn how to sleep in a tree safely!)
4) camo face painting table
5) highly professional debate: “PEETA VS. GALE”
6) cooking lesson: how to skin and roast a rabbit! (gross!)
7) Poisonous Berries 101: “Don’t End Up Like Foxface”
fashion show of the season’s hottest looks, straight from the Capitol!
seriously guys, i am this close to WEEPING cos this party didn’t happen. which is all the more reason why FYA has gotta get to gangbusters level so we can throw our own party when the third book comes out!!! (blatant hint: tell yr friends about us!)
and OBVS we’re gonna be posting about the book itself– jenny and i have already read it (I KNOW! WE WIN!) and let me tell you right now: IT IS JUST AS AWESOME AS YOU THINK IT WILL BE.
i can’t wait to talk about it!!!!!!!! PEETA I LOVE YOU.
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Catching Fire is my present to myself if I am a good girl and do all my chores this week. I am not kidding. Hello, Sunday afternoon? Get ready for me, my couch, a cup of tea and random fist-pumping and declarations of “MARRY ME PEETA” called out.
Oops, I just deleted my comment, I think. It went like this:
CATCHING FIRE CATCHING FIRE CATCHING FIRE!!! Helllooo, book store, I am totally taking a visit to you on Thursday! I’m finishing The Book Thief right now (topical! it’s YA and loaned to me by Erin!) and then it’s all Peeta all the time!
Or Gale. Or Peeta. Or Gale. Or…screw it: all Katniss all the time!
Um… If you’re going all out, shouldn’t we be able to have outfits that catch on fire but cause us no pain? Please?
Also, when did the Harry Potter parties start? Was that a right away thing, or did it take until a later book in the series?
ok, henri, since you’re begging for it, i GUESS we can prance around in flaming outfits. and look awesome.
and that’s a good question about the HP phenomenon. i think HG is only going to be a trilogy, but perhaps it will blow up by the third book and then they’ll build an HG amusement park (like the potter one) where you can go and, um, kill kids! er…
and butter beer!
That’s really the only thing the HG series is missing.
Ah, but they have lamb stew with plums!
If we have a park where we can kill kids, can we also have an arena where we really play out the “How many five-year-olds could you fight to the death?” question? I’d do AWESOME in my flaming outfit, for sure.
Sign me up for the party.
I am purchasing the book on Friday after work so that I have the three day weekend to enjoy it (who am I kidding-I’m totally staying up all night until I finish it.)
Henri, we don’t want to watch you lose at hand-to-hand with a five year old. It’d just be sad.
yeah, like the way you lost at verbal combat with that kid at the pool: “Are you too good for your SHORTS?!”
HAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAha heh oh man. best comeback line EVER. esp. from an eight-year-old.
i asked becky to mail me her copy. i don’t know if my school library will get it anytime soon.
um… there’s actually a team gale? really? isn’t that like there being a team jacob?