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Rooter was at once the most difficult and the most helpful of the pequeninos.

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

Dakota by Kathleen Norris

Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

December 15, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Speaker for the Dead – 4/5 Stars This is the direct sequel to Ender’s Game, in that it’s an Ender book, doesn’t stay on Earth with Bean and Peter like other later books, and is the book that Card wrote right after Ender’s Game. It’s also one of those books I skipped for the longest time. I read the first book in high school 25 years ago and have read all the Ender’s Shadow books at least once. I think when I read the premise of this book I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: dakota, Douglas Stuart, Elmore Leonard, Kathleen Norris, Orson Scott Card, out of sight, shuggie bain, speaker for the dead

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:640 · Genres: Fiction, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: dakota, Douglas Stuart, Elmore Leonard, Kathleen Norris, Orson Scott Card, out of sight, shuggie bain, speaker for the dead ·
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