Category: Hunger Games

• Movies and Me

  This past month has been theater going, as promised. I’ve been to four movies in as many weeks, which is twice as many as I usually attend in a full year. First up was Ender’s Game. Since I’d recently read the novel—as well as Ender’s Shadow—the storyline was a bit disappointing. Chop and hack galore. […]

  Carrie Dalby

  December 3, 2013

  ASD Autism Spectrum Disorders, autism, books, Catching Fire, children, CURRENT EVENTS, Disney, Ender’s Game, Geeks, husband, kids, MOVIES, New Year, Scandinavian, teens, Thor

• The End Game

  I don’t usually review books but once upon a time I listed them here and wrote a blurb about each one. Scaling down was the best option for me a few years back, but if you’re interested in what I’m reading, you can track them on Facebook. It’s not as visually pleasing but I update […]

  Carrie Dalby

  August 9, 2013

  blog, books, Catching Fire, Ender’s Game, Facebook, Geeks, Hunger Games, library, literature, MOVIES, Orson Scott Card, Speak, WRITING

• Escape into Reading

  This month has been filled with family and home. I’ve been surrounded by a few nieces and many more nephews, and all the things that accompany them. Laundry, food, messes, and noise. And of course fun, laughter, love, and adventure. But I’ve had to cope with lack of quiet and thinking time. So I went […]

  Carrie Dalby

  July 22, 2011

  Breathing, family, hibernating, Hunger Games, Katherine Paterson, READING, Terabithia

• What was I thinking?!

  Yes, I used two, count them, TWO, punctuation marks because my situation is a question and an exclamatory. Read onto find out why. If you’re a reader of this blog, know me personally, or even just hear about me from someone else, you probably know I’m a writer. People have paid me for my words, […]

  Carrie Dalby

  June 23, 2011

  Anxiety, blog, blogging, BLOGS, Catching Fire, children, CORRODED, editing, Hawthorne, Hunger Games, Laurie Halse Anderson, LHA, procrastination, WFMAD, WIP, WRITING