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BookTok likes "Sunrise on the Reaping" Suzanne Collins has just dropped her new prequel to the Hunger Games series called Sunrise on the Reaping and fans have been buzzing about it since it came out. It’s the first new entry since 2020's The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. People are surprised by some of the plot twists and are watching the films on their laptops getting all emotional during scenes that hit differently now that they've read the prequel. Now I know it’s easy to poke fun at BookTok if you’re not into it but I bring up these quick reactions to show how much has changed since Collins released the first Hunger Games book back in September 2008 which was just a couple months before Barack Obama got elected. There was no TikTok or Instagram back then and Twitter and Tumblr were s...

The impact of storytelling and why reading and readers matter Last month a popular literary event brought together four Asian women authors: Gong Ji-yeong from South Korea Li Zishu from Malaysia and Qiao Ye and Liao Jing from China. This event organized by the Beijing October Arts and Literature Publishing House attracted over 1.4 million viewers through its live online broadcast. In a two-hour chat they dove into topics like how to start a writing career the link between writing and reality and the messages writers share through their work. Qiao who won China's top literary award the Mao Dun Literary Prize in 2023 for her novel Bao Shui (Precious Water) says she kicked off her writing journey while teaching in a small village in Henan province. "When I was about 20 I felt lonely and unsat...

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BookTok reviews "Sunrise on the Reaping"

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