what is the common denominator?

Question: What do this,

and this,

have in common?

Answer: They both have the same author, Suzanne Collins.

WHHATT?!?!? I completely feel like this right now,

Okay, enough with the roadtrip of the blog page, back to my point. I've always heard people are either born with it or they aren't. In Suzanne's case, she was born with the ability to suck the life force out of kids/tweens/me and make them completely enthralled in a character. I spent months of my adult life obsessing over The Hunger Games. I can't even begin to imagine how much of my childhood life was spent watching Clarissa. I wonder if she wrote a script about dieting if she could single-handedly take out US obesity. Yep, my bet is on Suzanne.