Iowa City, IA — The hold shelves Tuesday at the Iowa City Public Library were peppered with the pale blue spine of “Mockingjay,” the third and supposedly final installment in “The Hunger Games” blockbuster trilogy of young-adult novels by Suzanne Collins. Katniss Everdeen, 16, is the protagonist in a dystopian future version of North America known as Panem. It’s a harsh dictatorship, where children from 12 blighted districts battle each other to the death in an annual reality-TV game show, to the delight of the pampered citizens.
I spent part of my summer reading the first two installments in the series, 2008’s “The Hunger Games” and last year’s “Catching Fire.”
I think I’m OK revealing that, because I’ve learned I’m hardly alone among allegedly mature readers.
Jason Paulios, 32, the librarian in the young adults’ corner here in the Iowa City library, tallied a “mind-boggling” 93 holds for “Mockingjay,” released Tuesday.
Glen Rock, NJ – on Monday the library hosted its first-ever sleepover party, in conjunction with the release of “Mockingjay,” Suzanne Collins’ newest book in the “Hunger Games” series.
Nancy Pearl’s twitter feed: Mockingjay: triumphant finale: painfully sad,many deaths,hard decisions;same courageous Katniss. Made me want to reread 1&2 in the series.
we have 111 holds right now.
but we have 50 copies, so it won’t be much of a wait for kids (and adults) to get it.
100 copies.
1,032 holds.
(@ Hennepin County Library)
Not as popular here
In comparison, we have 25 copies and 39 holds. No where near the 100+ library systems.
998 copies
2498 holds @Salt Lake County Libraries