A common beef Christians have with dystopian stories is that they are hopeless. It’s common because it can be very true – dystopias are designed to display a reality where all feels lost, where people feel crushed and hopeless, and evil has all the power. So it makes sense that books and movies in this […]
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Why Katniss Everdeen Has No Hope – But We Do
Posted in Fandoms and Geekery, Literature, Movie Reviews, Philosophy and Worldviews, Reviews, tagged films, hunger games, katniss, mockingjay, movies on November 26, 2014 | 7 Comments »
Some Other Perspectives on “The Hunger Games”
Posted in Book Reviews, Controversies, Movie Reviews, Reviews, Simmer Starters on May 18, 2012 | 12 Comments »
I’m always surprised to see that one of the top posts on this blog is my review of The Hunger Games. There are a lot of reviews of this book (or the movie) out there right now, and I am continually seeing new ones that bring out other points I didn’t see or didn’t expound […]
Five Favorite Science-Fiction TV Shows
Posted in Movie Reviews, Reviews, TV Show Reviews on May 3, 2012 | 18 Comments »
Growing up, I was always more a lover of fantasy than science-fiction. Although I liked science-fiction in theory, and wrote it, I never watched or read science-fiction movies or books (with the exception of a long Star Wars phase in my childhood). However, since Christopher and I have been married – almost two years now! […]
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Bethany A. Jennings is a YA speculative fiction and poetry author, a freelance editor, and a lover of artisan sandwiches. Born in SoCal, with a heart and soul raised in many different worlds, she now lives happily in New England with her husband, four children, zero pets, and a large and growing collection of tiny houseplants. She is a firm believer in the power of words to reach hurting hearts, uplift the weary, and pierce the darkness.
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