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1. I am one of 7 kids - my favorite superhero is Superman- My favorite food is popcorn and pickles
2. Enders Game 👎
3. Yes . Not any “big” name authors
4. Too cold ! I can wear extra layers I hate being hot and sweaty . #litsylearn @Alora

#QuotsyOct19 Day 16: #dignity

Enjoying this sci-fi on audio. #audiorunning

Combine a very hardcore sci fi premise, a highly problematic author, and a cover that I (for some reason) found very intimidating and you‘ve got yourself the award-winning Ender‘s Game. On Episode 59 of my pod, debut author Katy Rose Pool joins to discuss how this book has impacted her own writing + how challenging it is to reconcile that with Orson Scott Card‘s icky politics. We also discuss the book‘s good vs. evil themes. Link to listen in bio!

This book is riveting even if you‘re not into sci-fi. Enders Game has twists and turns and you will not expect the ending. Orson Scott Card outdid himself with this masterpiece.

This was a fun read!

It does exactly what it‘s suppose to. Entertaining science fiction. What if there were to be an attack in space from alien beings. According to Ender‘s Games, it is literally up to the kids to save us.

Loved the ending. Just a fun book. No big surprises or twists but kept my attention!

Newest audiobook and I‘m about halfway...

Very interested by the idea. This (very young) boy is basically being trained in military techniques through games to ensure he could lead in a battle if there is an alien attack.

I know it‘s been out forever but I have NO IDEA what is about to happen !

I picked this book strictly because it was written in the year I was born. I liked it but admittedly not as much as I would have had I not seen that (pretty awful) movie that came out a few years back. Certain parts of the book would have been much more exciting if I hadn‘t, so at times it felt a bit draggy. The last couple chapters were actually my favorite parts, the whole ideal of colonization. I can see its a great book, it just wasn‘t for me.

This was a re-read—maybe my 3rd read. It was just as good as I remember. I was struck by how YOUNG the kids are—I remember that being disturbing before & I think that‘s one of the reasons the story has such an impact. This time it felt so extreme it was unrealistic, yet I wonder if that was intentional. The story is about extremes—the extremes humans are driven to in self-protection, and then the resilience & compassion of a child to lead us back.

A child thinks he‘s training/ playing a game and unwittingly massacres an alien race

So aliens attack Earth and the government is like “We should totally train little kids to fight the aliens.” So they build a school in orbit to make a kid space military and one kid is better than the other kids so teachers let the other kids treat him like crap to make him a good leader. Then Something Happens and you cry for the rest of the book.

Meanwhile his brother and sister take over the Earth through internet comments.

#badsummary

My weekend reading is a little eclectic. I need to read 1 & 2 Maccabees and also Daniel for my EfM group, and finish Ender‘s Game for a discussion on Monday. I‘ve never read any of the Apocrypha before, so Maccabees will be interesting...and a far cry from the YA sci-fi of Ender‘s Game!!

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I will admit, this is not my favorite genre, it was a book selected to meet a challenge, and I will also admit, I did end up enjoying it. Not sure if I will continue on with the series though.

I‘m currently on vacation in Seattle. I just landed today after a 3 1/2 hour flight delay (about 5 hours at the airport before finally taking off) and a 3 hour flight (thanks headwind). I‘m exhausted and decided to stay in my hotel for the night. I finished this book. I loved it. I know I say that a lot about the books I read. I guess I‘ve been picking good ones lately.
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At the airport waiting for my flight to the Emerald City. Vacation time. I brought a few books with me. I have a one hour flight delay so I‘ll probably finish this one before I even board the plane.

Update: 3 1/2 hour delay 🙃

I‘m glad I had the foresight to bring two books to work. Time to start book 17 of #52booksin52weeks

#QuotsyMar19 Day 27: #Pretend you are someone else, and turn into that someone - if so, be Batman. Or Beyoncé. I super enjoyed reading Ender‘s Game and thought that the movie adaptation was lacking in grit. Regardless, I have the rest of the books in the series waiting to be read.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card is a wonderful SF novel that won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1986. I think it would be an awesome read aloud (RA) in class, or an independent read (IR). This is my favorite book of all time, and I could rave about it for days. However it does deal with some more graphic subjects and has some children fighting, so I would recommend it for more mature 5th and 6th graders only. #LAE3414sp19

Remember - the enemy's gate is down.

#LiteraryLuck #Games #BattleSchool

I get why people love this book so much. And the ending is probably what pushed from 3 stars to 4 stars in my mind. Overall, I wasn‘t all that crazy about it. #RevolvingAroundAGame #PopSugarReadingChallenge #14of65 #Audiobook

Oof, I‘m having a hard time with a 6 year old and so much violence. #currentlylistening

I saw this floating around and thought I'd join in on the fun!

📖Sci fi
📖Galaxy Bound
📖Coffee Fuel
📖Magical Powers
📖Salty rivalry
📖Dystopia
📖Android sidekick
📖Amphibians
📖Both
📖YA

@hermyknee
#ThisOrThat #ThisThat #Scifi #Endersgame #books

I had a few issues with certain parts of this book but I appreciate what OSC was trying to do, given the time in which he wrote it. I don‘t want to spoil anything but the use of children, gifted or not, for war, on any level, is disconcerting. This is a Science-Fiction but it could also be part cautionary tale about the lengths people will go to when they think they‘re right. Side note: give the movie a hard pass...

I‘m definitely late but that‘s how my week is going. Haha!

#HumpDayPost
1. Awesome ice cream place in Houston, TX.
2. I don‘t buy ebooks but the first one I listened to was the tagged book. ☺️
3. 29-ish.
4. I collect some lotr, Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes and a very small collection of Shakespeare.
5. My cousin and I want to travel to Canada in June. That might be as exciting as I get this year.

@MinDea

congrats! I tagged this book as it was integral of my love of reading (sci fi in particular). Devoured the whole series as a boy in my accelerated reading class. Bums me out that Scott Card seems to be a big ole jerk :( . @IamIamIam #26KGiveaway

Enjoyed it. Entertaining. #2018 #readingchallenge #orsonscottcard #endersgame

“There‘s only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that‘s being so good at what you do that they can‘t ignore you.”

Not the normal genre I read, but I ended up really loving it!! #booklover #lovedit #scifi #fantasy #orsonscottcard

My new commute read courtesy of Net Galley.
A little depressing and violent so far but I am interested to see how it develops.
A bit reminiscent of Ender's Game.
#currentlyreading #NetGalley

Finished in one day! Guess I liked it a little. 😉

”Touching her heart is like bathing in ice.”

“I imagine, I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her, cold as she is? It must Surely burn like fire.”

#quotsynov18 #remember @TK-421

I didn‘t recognize all of the ways this book resonated until much later in life, but it is no wonder that I was so drawn into this world from the very first pages, when I was 12.

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“If the other fellow can‘t tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn‘t trying to kill you.”

I‘m not actively reading, I just have my copy out so I can keep pace with @brandybear22 😏 What I am doing is way less fun and dear god let tomorrow be Mountain Day

Sci-fi, Horror, fantasy (although, I will pick one up here and there, I normally skip right past)

Is it any surprise that I absolutely love this book? It means an awful lot to me. It was one of the first science fiction stories that touched me in a way that no other book has. It was the realization of my love for this genre.
10/10 alien rating

#sciencefiction #orsonscottcard
#ender

"Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth"

So, so, so true.

Some might disagree but after getting halfway thru this book today I JUST CAN‘T!! The Author honestly makes me feel like he‘s a CREEP/PEDOPHILE/HOMOPHOBIC ETC. I just CAN‘T

So far MEH 😐 we‘ll see 😒

Lunch hour reading. Hopefully I finish it before it‘s over. :(

This was fun!

Song of Achilles
The Time Travelers Wife
Enders Game
Peter Pan
Harry Potter
A Man Called Ove
Never Let Me Go
Interview with the Vampire
Every Day

@LibrarianRyan

I don‘t really know what I think of this book. I liked some of the characters but the children were so twisted and used by the adults that they weren‘t even recognizable as children. So much brutality and anger. I actually was speechless when I found out how old he was. And the ending was actually so sad. No spoilers. Overall though an easy and quick read with a good story and setting .

My #TBR stack for September! I‘m going with Sci-Fi / Fantasy for the month! It‘s my birthday month!!! ⭐️🌙🖤😍

Memorable story about a very bright boy born into a difficult situation. Because of this, he is sent to a special school for military (virtual) training at an early age. There are significant unexpected twists in this classic that keep the reader interesteed. For advanced YA readers.

I had always *meant* to read this but it never seemed to happen. I finally made it happen and am so glad that I did. I knew it was well-loved, but enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It is lovely and tragic. I enjoyed the different elements and perspectives, and plan on reading the rest of the series.

My library holds for Ender‘s Game and Ready Player One (audio) came in at the same time. I‘m as happy as a nerdy 14 year-old boy!!

This is an amazing, well written book! I just reread it and remembered why I enjoyed it so much. Ender is a true prodigy, and that makes him a tool to help humanity. He‘s taken into space to become a soldier; or even a officer. And this was at the young age of six! His life spirals from there, facing all kinds of obstacles. This is a truly amazing book! #scifi #space #battles #strategy #fight #smart #intelligent #aliens #alien