In his introduction to Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card explains that THIS was the book he wanted to write all along, and while he’s very pleased that Ender’s Game has done so well, that he really just intended it as an introduction to Speaker for the Dead. I remember being really confused by that as a kid, because while I liked Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide just fine, I didn’t think they were as good as my beloved Ender’s Game. As I’ve gotten older and reread the […]
A Hungry Girl
I really liked this. It was super creepy, and well written, and featured some surprisingly well-rounded out characters. Even though we only get a glimpse of the people that Sgt Parks, Dr. Caldwall, Miss Justineau, and the Private were before the Breakdown, we have a very solid idea of what they’ve become. Then there’s poor Melanie, who has only existed post-Breakdown. “…then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what’s inside is good or bad. Because it’s both. […]
A space game that’s not Ender’s.
This is one of those books that has just kind of stuck with me. The story arc is straightforward and not super exciting on the surface: man who is good at playing games plays a really hard game. The writing wasn’t bombastic; I wasn’t marveling at all the well-turned phrases. I didn’t particularly care for the main character until about halfway through, and the only other characters I sort of cared about were the droids. But…it has taken me about three weeks to sit down and […]
A crushing crisis of faith.
There are points in a person’s life when a book crushes her very core, and she is left reeling. There are moments when a book’s impact is felt too-closely based on an event or circumstance in a person’s life. In my life, The Book Thief fits that former category, a book that left me curled up in fetal position around a box of Kleenex, sobbing until I couldn’t breathe. The latter kind of book is The Fault in Our Stars, which I read for CBR5 […]
Let’s go to battle school for a while
I read Ender’s Game for the first time when I was maybe 8 or 9 years old. I remember distinctly that my mom borrowed it from the library for herself, but I thought it was for me and had the whole thing read by the time she noticed I stole it from her bag. That’s the appeal of the Ender books — particularly the first — children and adults can both enjoy and learn from them. I’ve reread Ender’s Game and its sequels every few years […]
Post-Apocalyptic Shakespeare
I read a million reviews of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven on this site, so I finally found myself a copy. Y’all were right — this was a good read! “The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?” A super flu hits the world and wipes out just about everyone. 20 years later, Kristen and her band of musicians/actors travel North America, putting on performances for the small pockets of civilization […]
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