I really enjoyed this story. It begins with Alif, who helps people hide from the government on the Internet, suffer from woman problems — a rich girl he fell in love with is marrying another man. When she says it’s best if she never sees him again, he takes this to heart — he writes […]
Category Archives: Book Reviews
If I’m reading it, I’ll write about it here — scifi, fantasy, romance, mystery, non-fiction, or whatever my book club makes me read.
Book Review: Shadows in Flight
After reading Shadow of the Giant for the second time, I once again checked to see if there was or would ever be a conclusion to the story of Bean, the boy I’d fallen in love with in Ender’s Shadow. It DOES exist, came out two years ago as a matter of fact, but it […]
Rereading Xenocide and Children of the Mind
I hope you don’t mind my decision to combine my review of the last two books in the Ender saga into one. These two books make a complete story, and I find I cannot fully separate the details of one from the other in my mind. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m rereading this series after […]
Rereading Speaker for the Dead
This is the sequel to Ender’s Game, though in my meandering rereading pattern, I went with the parallel shadow series first. The reason for this is two-fold: First, I just connected more with Bean than with Ender. Second, I dimly recalled not caring for these sequels. Unlike the original Ender’s Game novel, which I have […]
Rereading Shadow of the Giant
And finally… except not so finally… I have reread Shadow of the Giant. I say “not so finally” because I recently learned that there IS another book in this series! It came out last year while I was looking the other way. With that in mind, much of my former reservations about this book are […]
Rereading Shadow Puppets
Continuing my reread of the shadow series, I find myself getting into Shadow Puppets, the third installment in the series which runs somewhat parallel to the Ender’s Game series. Petra convinces Bean to marry her and have babies early in this book. Since I knew it was coming this time, I didn’t find the idea […]
Rereading Shadow of the Hegemon
After reading Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow, I couldn’t resist rereading the rest of the Shadow series. I confess I don’t feel the same way about the parallel Ender series. I may get there, but as I mentioned in my recent review of Ender’s Shadow, I just love Bean as a character more than Ender. […]
Rereading Ender’s Shadow
Ender’s Shadow is a companion novel to the better-known Ender’s Game, a parallel story told from the point of view of another character — Bean. I loved Ender’s Game (as you can see in my recent review of that book), but I love this one even more. I give Ender’s Game 5 stars, but I […]
Rereading Ender’s Game
After watching the movie, I decided it was time to reread a fondly remembered book that I first read back in college, and have already reread once around the time my son was born eight years ago. This was my third look at Ender’s Game, and I doubt it will be my last. If that […]
Review of Ender’s Game: The Movie
I’ve known for months that Ender’s Game would come out on November 1st, 2013. Perfect timing, I though. I knew I’d be in St. Louis visiting my parents, and that I’d have free, built-in baby-sitting as a result. (Hey, this is a real problem for some of us!) But four weeks to the day after […]