It’s been difficult finding time
to read because of this baby girl (pictured to the left), but I’ve managed to
get a few more books under my belt. I’ve stayed true to my goal of focusing
predominantly on books from the library. This month I finished a gauntlet of
horror, science fiction, and American westerns. Dad came by the house and saw
that I was reading The Amityville Horror;
he read that one when it first came out. He would’ve been my age then, which is
a funny coincidence (but aren’t all coincidences, by their very nature, ‘funny’?).
The Enders Game Saga was a spur-of-the-moment library pick. I liked the front
cover of Earth Unaware and decided to
see what Orson Scott Card can do. His writing is fantastic, and he interweaves
science and alien thrashing with brilliant psychological insights. I’d never
the movie Ender’s Game, and after finishing
the saga (or the first half of it, anyways; the story continues with four more
books), I checked it out and was blown away. No wonder so many people have
praised it! I discovered Jeff Guinn’s Glorious at the Norwood Library during an
outing with our day program, and it was so good I had to see the main character’s
story through to the end.
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