MLL Podcast Episode #15 – Mockingjay

*SPOILERS*

The last book in the Hunger Games trilogy is action and emotionally packed. Listen in as Shannon and Kim give their thoughts on Snow to baby names!

BTW- We’ll have a table set up at the Austin Teen Book Festival, come by and talk to us!

LINKS {*Mockingjay*}{*Suzanne Collins*}{*Extraordinary*}{*Clockwork Angel*}{*Austin Teen Book Festival*}{*Smart Chicks Kick It*}

Listen Here:

• September 20, 2010 5:00PM-6:30PM Harleysville Books Harleysville, PA
• September 21, 2010 6:00PM-7:30PM Barnes & Noble Fairless Hills, PA
• September 22, 2010 6:00PM-7:30PM Children’s Book World Haverford, PA
• September 23, 2010 3:00PM-4:30PM Politics & Prose Washington, DC
• September 23, 2010 7:30PM-9:30PM Books-A-Million Hanover, MD
• September 25, 2010 Time TBD National Book Festival Washington, DC
• October 1, 2010 4:00PM-5:30PM Wild Rumpus Minneapolis, MN
• October 2, 2010 2:00PM-3:30PM Red Balloon Bookshop St Paul, MN
• October 3, 2010 2:00PM-3:30PM Anderson’s Bookshop Naperville, IL
• October 3, 2010 7:00PM-8:30PM The Book Stall Winnetka, IL
• October 4, 2010 3:00PM-4:30PM The Magic Tree Bookstore Oak Park, IL
• October 4, 2010 7:00PM-8:30PM Borders Schaumburg, IL
• November 3, 2010 7:00PM-8:30PM Kepler’s Books Menlo Park, CA
• November 4, 2010 7:00PM-8:30PM Hicklebee’s San Jose, CA
• November 5, 2010 7:00PM-8:30PM Barnes & Noble Lynnwood, WA
• November 6, 2010 11:00AM-12:30PM Elliot Bay Book Company Seattle, WA
• November 6, 2010 4:00PM-5:30PM Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, WA

It’s too bad we won’t see her down here in TX!  But we hope all of you get  your chance to meet Mrs. Collins!

Try the audiobook!

Mockingjay

What a GREAT video! I just had to share. Totally brought tears to my eyes!

~Kim

This video was released by Scholastic

Why do people do this, it really makes me angry.  Screw You Andrew Sims of Mugglenet.com and who ever leaked you the copy.  Go leave him some choice words.

Scholastic responds to apparent leak of ‘Mockingjay’ ahead of August 24th

August 11, 3:20 PMThe Hunger Games ExaminerSara Gundell

Perhaps one of the most coveted books — and most difficult to find before August 24th — is Mockingjay bySuzanne Collins, the third and final book in the best-selling Hunger Gamestrilogy.

The book doesn’t hit stores until August 24th, andScholastic has been adamant that no advance copies be released to anyone — not even members of the media. Mockingjay is being closely guarded, much as Scholastic did with the final Harry Potter book and as Little Brown did with the final Twilight Saga book. (Collins herself even wrote a letter to fans, asking them to avoid posting spoilers before and immediately following the book’s release.)

But somehow, at least one copy has been leaked to Andrew Sims, the admin for MuggleNet.com — one of the largest Harry Potter fansites around.

Sims tweeted a photo of the book, sans jacket cover, along with this message:

Thanks to a very kind friend, I’m about to start Mockingjay. Join me on my red eye flight to read along.

But Scholastic insists no advance copies are going out, and they’re puzzled as to how Sims got his hands on a copy.

“We are not releasing copies in advance of 8/24/10,” said Sheila Marie Everett, Collins’ publicist at Scholastic. “Scholastic did not provide this person with a copy of Mockingjay. In fact, I haven’t even read it yet!”

The Hunger Games Examiner asked Sims for a comment, but as of this time he has not responded.