Summer Reading

Over at the scifi book club on good reads we have two books already selected for summer beach reading.  We are currently looking at Battle Royale and next month we will look at Ender's Game.  We also have a poll up for the August book. 

I am going to give my 12 year old some challenging books for the summer.  I plan on having her pick two off of a 9th grade honors English recommended reading list.  Since I am already reading To Kill a Mockingbird, I will also have her read that. 

I am wondering if I should have her invite some of her friends to discuss the books with us.  Most of her friends aren't as advanced in reading, scheduling such things can be tricky, and finding an accomodating venue would be the challenges.  Maybe I will suggest it, but keep the invite power for myself. 

Has anyone ever tried this with kids?  I do the library's parent child book club, but those kids generally don't know each other very well.  These books are going to be more challenging and have less general reader appeal (for their age, at least). 

Ender is Done

Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)

Orson Scott Card

I just finished reading Ender's Game to Ashli.  She loved it.  She has even recruited her friends as toon leaders in her own Phoenix Army at school.  Her favorite quotation is, "Cover your butt, Bernard is watching.  God."  It was great to share this book with her.  I hope she remembers it all of her life.  It is really rewarding to have a piece of literature that you like so much and to be able to pass it on to your children. 

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Vox Hunt: Just Can't Get Enough

Book: Show us a book you've read more than once.

Watership Down

Richard Adams

 

Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)

Orson Scott Card

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Ender's Game 30th Birthday

iPulp Fiction will be releasing the short story that started it all in July and August.

EndersGameTHUMBcover

From the editor:  iPulp is celebrating Ender Wiggin's 30th birthday by publishing Orson Scott Card's original story, presented in two issues. We will simultaneously publish a version formatted specifically for the iPhone. As you well know, Ender's Game first appeared in the August 1977 issue of Analog.

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Vox Hunt: Adaptation Nomination

Book: What book would you like to see made into a movie? 
Submitted by Felipe Anuel.

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

Because of all the plot twist and character development.

but really:

Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)

Orson Scott Card

But, they could never do it right.

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QotD: My Fictional Counterpart

What character in a book can you connect with or relate to the most? 
Submitted by Eating A Book.

I wish I could say Ender Wiggin, but I am not that smart.

I will settle on Felix from Armor, although Haruki Murakami's main characters always strike a chord with me.

Armor

Norwegian Wood (Vintage International Original)

Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)

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Ender's Shadow

Ender's Shadow (Ender, Book 5)

Orson Scott Card

You would think retelling the same story from a different perspective would be a recipe for a terrible novel and low sales. Think again.

Card tells a story on the same timeline as Ender's Game and the events of the world mirror each other. Ender's Shadow is able to break free of the shadow of Ender's Game by mesmerizing the reader with the tale of little Bean.

Card weaves a retelling of his best selling award winner in with the new stories that Bean brings with it. It is almost a behind the scenes look into what was going on inside the school. If the reader has read Ender's Game he sometimes finds himself routing against Bean.

Card nails the story as original as a retelling can be told. He also makes it self sufficient so that readers may pick up Ender's Shadow and then decide that they would like to read Ender's Game as well. To say that the book was a success is selling it short. This proved to Card that he could write and sell other viable stories within the Ender universe.

Highly recommended!

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