Spoilers

When I got the first two books from the Hunger Games trilogy from Jen last month I didn't know I was going to enjoy the books so much that I'd have such a hard time waiting for the third and last book of the trilogy to be released this month. The release date for "Mockingjay" is this Tuesday, August 24. It has seemed worse than the wait for Christmas when I was a little kid! So bad that I've been pouring over the fan websites and looking for theories on the final book for the last month. I need to both thank and curse Jen for giving me something to distract me from my thyca issues for the past month. More of a thanks though, because the first two books were really good reads, and I've never been much of a reader, so a lot of good came out of it!

No advance copies of the book were given out to reviewers. A week or so ago, the author asked that fans not post any spoilers so everyone would have a chance to read the book first. Well, turns out some bookstore in Indiana put the books out on the shelves last Sunday, so a few people have been posting spoilers. Then an audio book website also accidentally posted the first chapter of the book, for download a few days ago - it has since been pulled, but spoilers were posted from it as well. Since I don't have any self control, I started to read all of the spoilers this afternoon. Why? - Why did I do that? Probably to see if any of my theories were correct, I guess. Well, from what I've read, I don't think any of my theories were correct. Doesn't matter though because I still can't wait to read the book, but I'm really sad about what happens in the end.

Of course I pre-ordered the book, it's being shipped to one of the local Borders bookstores here for me to pick up. One of the employees told me it would be shipped with the rest of the copies for the store, that I'd get an email when it is shipped a few days before the release date. Haven't gotten that email yet, and it's just two days away. I bet it won't arrive until Saturday, when they are having an event in the store for it. Honestly, I don't think I could wait that long to read it. So I'm happy that I saw it in the Target circular this morning. I may just end up at Target at 8am Tuesday morning so I can get it and start to read it. I need to put myself out of my misery ASAP!, and the sooner, the better!