I’m not faceblind but I don’t really imagine faces for characters. I build a broad generalisation of their characteristics in my head, like hair colour/style, height body type, specific gestures, any accessories they always have, etc. All the things you likely use to tell people apart. Even after a TV show/movie comes out for the book, I don’t add actors faces on the next read through.

My co-worker who hasn’t read Wool likes Silo. I’m curious to watch but not about to pay for Apple TV just for one show.

They’re both great series and I’ve reread them a few times. I have them in hardback.

I did a post about it ages ago and since I’m at work I can’t really look for it.

Biggest ones for me are:

District two is Eastern Colorado, Colorado Springs specifically because the Nut is obviously NORAD, 2 miles deep in the mountain. First one I felt sure on.

I think the Capital is in Grand Junction, CO because it’s Western Colorado, has plenty of water, has a mild climate but all 4 seasons and LOTS of space. The Nut is in Eastern Colorado and you go through the Mountains to get to Grand Junction, just like in the book. And it wasn’t a long trip.

District 12 I think West Virginia/ big coal mining area in modern times, since they’re known for coal.

Others, all debatable. I don’t know how much land the districts actually cover because the habitable areas/towns in each district aren’t really discussed much. I think a lot of the maps around the net aren’t great and don’t actually utilise the hints in the books well or pay attention to what areas of the US were known for when the book was written.

I haven’t ever tried to reread it, unlike Sabriel or The Golden Compass.

I can appreciate that. But the dystopian element of it being our world after a war/catastrophe is what truly made the book interesting to me.

Like A boy and his dog at the end of the world, it was amazing to read it and see all the real world places they go.

My favourite part of reading the Hunger Games was figuring out where each of the Districts were located.

Have you read Shade’s Children by Garth Nix? It was the first dystopian novel I ever read back in 1997.

My grandma read romance novels, she had SO many. We were building our log cabin house (a kit), and at 10 I was too small to help. I was sitting around while everyone else was working and found Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel in my grandparents van. I did not tell anyone I was reading it. That is not a book for a child. My mom wasn’t happy when she found out. She also didn’t think Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey was appropriate when I was 14.