Ender’s Shadow is and always has been one of my favorite books in this series. Bean, even smarter than Ender and not hindered by all those guilty feelings, just fascinates me. As with the others, I listened to this on audiobook and the narrators continued their awesomeness. Ender’s Shadow acts as a companion novel to Ender’s Game — you don’t need to read Ender’s Game first, but I still recommend that you do. Ender’s Shadow works best to flesh out that already existing story. “That was interesting, to find that […]
A strange age
My library recommended this to me after I finished More Happy Than Not, and I can see why — while the plots have almost nothing in common, the style and theme seem similar. Basically, another coming-of-age story set against a slightly science fiction-y background (although the sci-fi in this story impacts the plot quite a bit more than the memory removal service in More Happy Than Not). “How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at […]
An unusual family, to be sure
Well, this was an interesting read. Mary Anna King — born second to a family of seven — grew up watching her mother give away sister after sister, as she and her brother grew up in poverty. Born second in a family that would eventually number seven, Mary didn’t finish meeting all of her siblings until she was attending college. Mary and her older brother watched their grandparents take away their baby sister to Oklahoma, while they stayed in New Jersey with their extremely irresponsible parents. […]
A Sweet Little Read
I completely missed reviewing this book when I completed it a couple of weeks ago, which is a shame because it was a good read from an author that I’m really liking right now. So my apologies to Marisa de los Santos — your book is definitely worth a review! Love Walked In is definitely fluff, but it’s well-written fluff starring a couple of impressive ladies, so I highly recommend it to people who enjoy that sort of thing! “There’s a kind of holiness to love, requited […]
This book made me happy, then not
For those of you who enjoy YA fiction, I would definitely recommend this one. There’s a slight science fiction element to it, but really, it’s a coming of age story and it’s fantastic. “Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.” Aaron Soto has had a tough […]
A Spiritual Sequel to Misery
Stephen King may love his Constant Readers, but he has a major hate-on for collectors, and people who fetishize authors and/or their work. Besides the popular example of Annie Wilkes, who kidnaps and torments her favorite author in Misery, we can also look to Calvin Tower, whose desire to collect and hoard books almost ends the world in the Dark Tower series. To these maniacs, King adds the nasty wolf, Morris Bellamy. “For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers – not just capable […]
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