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And I’ve done it.

I’ve spent a lot of time avoiding book blogs, specifically @president’s, mainly because I didn’t want to know how it ended.  There’s more to the books, of course, a lot more than just the love triangle that everyone was so eager to place overzealous bets on, but that’s just it. 

I’d be a liar not to say I cared more about who she ended up with than how the brutal games/uprising/revolution played out. 

So.

As much as I wanted to read the rest of the trilogy right after finishing “Hunger Games”, I simply refused to spring for hard bound copies of the books. Hard bound copies are expensive, heavy and they wouldn’t go with the paperback first book I already have.

I found a way (ahem) to get copies from the vast wasteland that is known as the Internet, but I am loathe to read e-books.  I hate them, they make my eyes and head hurt.  By this time I’d decided I would get a Kindle, so I put off reading until this particular gadget made its way into my hands.

That was yesterday afternoon.

I started reading “Catching Fire” last night, then finished “Mockingjay” minutes ago.  What I have to say won’t be particularly extraordinary, or powerful, or even helpful to those who haven’t read the book, but it’s a manner of exorcising the heavy feelings that the trilogy has imprinted on me.

Here goes then, and spoilers await.

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