It's been a month since approximately forty people joined the Borders Capitola team in celebrating the arrival of the third installment of Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy.
The Opening Ceremonies concluded with "Katniss" (in her wedding dress) receiving a $5 gift card and a hand-made Mockingjay pin. The tributes participating in the station activities showed some real promise for this year's Games; Capitol Make-overs were all the rage; the Judge doled out final Station Ratings.
The Trivia Challenge was very exciting! Each District presented Tributes one at a time to see who would survive. If the selected Tribute gave the correct answer, they survived until the next time, if not... Well, it is the Hunger Games after all. Soon it was down to one Tribute each from Districts 3 and 4 - both battled valiantly, but District 4 won on a tough question. Awarded for winning the challenge, Lindsey went first in line to get her copy of Mockingjay with the members of her District right behind her.
Since the release party, Borders Capitola has seen 185 copies of Mockingjay go out the door. As it is one of our favorite series, we got
very excited to learn about the Mockinjay display contest. We spent a long time thinking about what the series meant to us, and in particular what the general themes of the final book asked of its readers. Come in to the store and take a look (in detail) at what we came up with - tell us what you think! Hopefully we'll win, and then we'll let you know when Suzanne Collins is coming to visit our store! (That's the prize.) =D
