I just started the new Barbara Kingsolver book, The Lacuna. I need to pick up a Kathy Reichs book to read this weekend before her lecture in Scranton on Monday.

I've been on a Frank Lloyd Wright kick. I recently read The Women: A Novel by T.C. Boyle and Loving Frank by Nancy Horan. My interest was sparked by a visit to Falling Water and the Guggenheim Museum which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

Hello Everyone, here are the books shared at the NEPaLA Fall Social at the Hoyt Library.

1. Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
3. Intensity by Dean Koontz
4. Dewey by Vicki Myron
5. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
6. Hunger Game by Suzanne Collins
7. A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner
8. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
9. Clueless In Academe by Gerald Graff
10. Why We Run by Bernd Heinrich
11. Making Of A Chef by Michael Ruhlman
12. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
13. Miss Buncle's Book by D. E. Stevenson
14. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
15. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

I was going to talk about The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. It's set in a post-apocalyptic world where the Capitol rules. There were at one point, 13 districts, but when one district tried to overthrow the capitol, it was destroyed to prove that the capitol holds the upper hand. To continue to prove its strength, the capitol created the Hunger Games. Two teenagers are chosen from each district to compete in the games where they fight to the death, the last teen standing is the winner of the games.

The story centers around Katniss Everdeen. Her little sister is chosen as her districts representative to the games and to protect her Katniss volunteers to go in her place. The other representative from her district is Peeta. Katniss must decide if she can trust Peeta in the games and work with him to survive to the end.

It's a fast paced race to the end of the games and I'm sure you won't be able to put the book down! The sequel came out a few months ago, Catching Fire. It's going to be a Trilogy. If you love the first two as much as me, you'll be dying for the final installment to come out.