MOCKINGJAY countdown: one and a half hours left!

August 23, 2010

MOCKINGJAY is officially available (in the Eastern time zone at least!) in just an hour and a half. It seems like a lot of places (shame on you, LA Times!) are breaking the street date, so I’m going to be mostly off the Internet until Friday.

Friday?

Yes, MOCKINGJAY comes out on Tuesday and as much as I wanted to go to a midnight release party and spend all night tonight reading, when I found out that Suzanne Collins would be visiting an independent bookstore not super-far from where I live, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go see her read and get a custom-stamped book! (She’s not signing because of a hand injury, but the stamp she’s using is a custom MOCKINGJAY stamp that won’t be used outside of this promotional tour.)

So I have to wait. I may post reviews for a couple of books I read over the weekend, but I really want to have a spoiler-free experience. We’ll see if I can manage that for three and a half days! I hope you all get copies soon and read it and love it and aren’t too sleepy at work the next day–because you know you’ll be up all night the day you get it!

And for those of you who have copies on hold at a library or might have to wait to read it, too, here’s a video of Collins reading the first chapter of MOCKINGJAY:

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Tags: hunger games, suzanne collins, ya lit