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So, you want to start reading books but don't know what to read or get into? Well, today I felt that I owed my dear readers a post after not posting here for like more than a week, so today I'm going to be going over my picks for what you should be reading as a teenager/young adult (because that's what I am) So let's get started. The Hunger Games trilogy The first book(s) that I'm going to suggest is the Hunger Games trilogy. These are some really good pieces of apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic fiction that I highly recommend. Seeing as most people have probably seen the movies since the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes prequel came out, (both the book and the more recent movie) I'm not going to bother explaining a synopsis. Just read the back cover of the first book, and you'll understand why I like it. Now I will say that the weakest book in the trilogy is the finale,  Mockingjay . I say this for multiple reasons. One is because of its length. It is about double...

Last night, as of writing this, I watched the musical  Little Shop of Horrors  at a high school in a nearby town. I am a huge fan of Little Shop , but had only seen the 1986 film, and even then, only the theatrical cut. So obviously, it was a little different from the source material. But, I enjoyed the play all the same. Spoilers ahead, this is a review post. So if you don't know what Little Shop  is about, I'll go over a brief plot synopsis. The play follows Seymour Krelborn, a young florist who works for Mr. Mushnik in Skid Row. He discovers a new type of plant, the Audrey II (named after his coworker and love interest Audrey), which depends on human blood and flesh to survive. The plant eventually begins to speak, and it convinces Seymour in a really awesome song to kill people to feed it. So he goes after Audrey's abusive boyfriend, the sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello. After Orin suffocates from taking in too much nitrous oxide, Seymour feeds him to Audrey II. After ...