Summoning Ch13

Last time on the filler, Chloe fillered the filler with the filler to filler because filler.

Summoning Ch12

Last time on the Summoning, nothing continues to happen.

Summoning Ch11

Last time on the Summoning, Chloe continues to ignore the supernatural, then Liz reappears only for Chloe's hand to pass right through her.

Summoning Ch10

Last time on the Summoning, Liz moves things without touching them.

Summoning Ch9

Last time on the Summoning, Rae is really not a good influence.

Summoning Ch8

Last time on the Summoning, we learn that no one in the building knows anything about psychiatry.

Summoning Ch7

Last time on the Summoning, we met the other inmates.

Summoning Ch6

Last time on the Summoning, Chloe may be displaying the first stage of another schizophrenic symptom, paranoia. The EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL nurse tells her clearly what the boundaries are and says to just be honest about things.

Because everyone seems confused (and it isn't really that clear in the book either) here's what's going on as far as we know:

1)Chloe runs screaming through the halls into an empty classroom.
2) Teachers see Chloe, somehow instantly know she's thinking of jumping out a window despite the window being closed.
3) Teachers tackle Chloe and wrestle her to the ground while she yells about a scary guy they can't see.
4) ??? Some sort of minimal testing was done, presumably drug testing at least. Doctors don't tell Chloe their findings but she claims they're acting like it's serious.
6) Chloe's sent to a group home while drugged into incoherence, then given unknown meds on her first day.

Or, in short, nothing makes sense. Some of the pieces here connect up to others, but nothing in sequence and a couple don't even work in isolation.

Summoning Ch5

Last time on nonsensical depictions of mental illness treatment, Chloe was walked around her new home while out of her mind on drugs.

Summoning Ch4

Last time on the Summoning, Chloe runs away from a ghost, gets tackled by a teacher, and then she's knocked out and taken to a hospital.

Summoning Ch3

Last time on the Summoning, Chloe pretends she didn't just run into a ghost while getting her lunch back.

Summoning Ch2

Last time on the Summoning, Chloe whines about how she's short and hasn't had her period and her hair isn't good enough. Also, ghost boy.

Summoning Ch1

Last time on the Summoning, scary ghosts in the basement.

The Summoning, Prologue

So, The Summoning just barely managed to scrape ahead, and then currently we're tied. The moral here is whining after I've already read half a book just means I have to read something else too. Although I probably will be doing Gemma Doyle's schoolgirl adventures later, possibly next.

Mockingjay Epilogue and End

Well, let's wrap this travesty up.

Mockingjay Ch27

Last time on Mockingjay, Katniss murdered Coin.

Mockingjay Ch26

Last time on Mockingjay, Katniss ran into Snow, who told us what I thought we already knew.

Mockingjay Ch25

Last time on Mockingjay, for some reason yet to be fully explained, bombs. And Prim died.

Poll!

There's a poll currently to your right. You can still leave suggestions, and if there are good ones I'll redo the poll Monday to include them. You can also just keep leaving suggestions to try to convince me. Which book is picked is going to be by a mix of how much you want me to vs how much I want me to.

For yesterday's suggestions:

Mockingjay Ch24

Last time on Mockingjay, we end on a (for this book) reasonable line about Katniss picking her boyfriend based on who she can't live without.

Mockingjay Ch23

Last time on Mockingjay, I'm rising to my feet when a woman throws open the door. She wears a bright turquoise silk robe embroidered with exotic birds. Her magenta hair's fluffed up like a cloud and decorated with gilded butterflies. Grease from the half-eaten sausage she's holding smears her lipstick. The expression on her face says she recognizes me. She opens her mouth to call for help.
Without hesitation, I shoot her through the heart.

Mockingjay Ch22

Last time on Mockingjay, they take to the sewers and wake up to something, or somethings, whispering Katniss' name in the tunnels. Unfortunately all possible suspense and creepiness has already left ages ago.

Mockingjay Ch21

Last time on Mockingjay, a series of unbelievably convenient disasters happened. Also, Peeta killed someone in the process of trying to kill Katniss.

Mockingjay Ch20

Last time on Mockingjay, a photo shoot goes wrong and Boggs explodes.

Mockingjay Ch19

Last time on Mockingjay, the stupidest and most inexplicable assassination plot ever. And we hit the section break. The third section begins: THE ASSASSIN.

Oh dear. This is not going anywhere good, is it.

Break 2

I think the issue is simply a matter of what the author can write. She can write people running around killing each other quite well. (She can't write it realistically, but she can certainly write it.) She can also do a decent job writing about movie stars who get delicious food, covered in makeup, and then have to do various TV-related activities, I just don't care to read about that.

She can't write anything else. And that's the problem. In the other books, she was mostly in her comfort zone. The actual content was reprehensible, to say nothing of unresearched, but at least there was content.

So here's what should have happened: