Episode 291: Mockingjay
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Mockingjay
At long last, we tackle the final book in the original Hunger Games trilogy: Mockingjay. This is a heavy book, so there's lots to get into in this episode: cycles of violence, the consequences of war, what it means to be a symbol, PTSD, and plenty of moral ambiguity. And it wouldn't be a Hunger Games episode (of course) without a Team Gale vs. Team Peeta debate—and this one gets especially spicy!
TW: suicide, PTSD, trauma
E.B. Asher is the pen name for the writing trio of Bridget Morrissey, Emily Wibberley, and Austin Siegemund-Broka, all of whom have written many books under their own names. This Will Be Fun is their debut novel under the E.B. Asher pseudonym. Follow their work on Instagram @eb_asher.
CHECK OUT OUR OTHER HUNGER GAMES EPISODES:
Episode 134: The Hunger Games (with Old Millennials Pod)
Episode 236: Catching Fire (with Heather McGhee)
CHECK OUT BRIDGET, EMILY, AND AUSTIN’S PREVIOUS SSR APPEARANCES:
Episode 226: The Trumpet of the Swan
Episode 250: Hope Was Here
CHECK OUT BRIDGET, EMILY, AND AUSTIN’S BOOKS:
This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher
The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
Do I Know You? by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
The Breakup Tour by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
That Summer Feeling by Bridget Morrissey
A Thousand Miles by Bridget Morrissey
Love Scenes by Bridget Morrissey
CHECK OUT BRIDGET, EMILY, AND AUSTIN’S BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:
The Villain Edit by Laurie DeVore
The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang
MORE READING:
“Mockingjay: The brilliance of the book and how the movies almost ruined it” (Entertainment Weekly, 2015)
“Mockingjay tops all national bestseller lists with sales of more than 450,000 copies in its first week of publication” (Scholastic, 2010)
“How to teach Mockingjay” (Prestwick House)
“Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins” (The Guardian, 2015)
“Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games: Book 3)” (Fantasy Book Review)
“Why Mockingjay, the messiest and most ambitious Hunger Games book, needed to get out of Katniss Everdeen’s head” (Vox, 2015)
“Book review: Mockingjay” (Los Angeles Times, 2010)
“Why The Hunger Games: Mockingjay is a better book than Catching Fire” (Gizmodo, 2013)
“Mockingjay” (Kirkus, 2010)
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