I have a tendency to devour books. I usually peruse a lot of free classics, as well as some rather questionable free or severely discounted gems on the Amazon bookstore. I got to read the entire 14 book series of Frank L. Baum’s Oz novels this way, as well as trying to slog my way through the translated Les Mis. Not an easy task.
As an avid reader, I know I’m about to hang myself when I say before the movie came out, I had never read Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card. I loved the movie and Ender himself, the isolated genius who knew he had to sacrifice himself to save humanity. I realized I had to read the book as well, in order to do the story justice. You know the ancient nerd adage… “The book was way better than the movie.”
I devoured Ender’s Game in a matter of hours. Skimmed back to the start of the Ebook and read it again slower, over the course of days. This was a couple of years ago, so I felt the need to reread it just a month or so ago. I redownloaded my Kindle book and loved it again, as expected. But in the back, just past the final page, there was a sample of another book that had been added since my last download. Seemed interesting, so I bought it.
I have spent every break, every spare moment in a long line, or just any little inbetween second I can spare reading The Lost Gate. Obviously by Card as well, it is about a boy named Danny who lives with his very very extended family of mages somewhere in the rural Eastern US. This story is about Danny trying to find himself in a world he feels has no connection to him, as well as great wars between the great mage families, demigods and drowthers (aka muggles for the HP inclined out there).
Check it out! That exclamation means go do it now!
I’m so sleepy, I’ll just leave it at that and cheat a little, counting this as my 6/03 entry. Clearly it is the fourth but oh well.
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