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Ender's Game (Book Review)

Before there was Katniss Everdeen to topple an nightmarish government, even before there was Harry Potter to stop an evil wizard, there was Ender Wiggin, who had the gruelling task of saving the Earth from aliens. In his hit novel Ender's Game , Orson Scott Card tells us about a world where “buggers” – an insectoid alien race had twice tried to invade Earth, nearly destroying our civilization. The “bugger” wars would change not only the world politics and technological progress but the way of life of every family everywhere. The political map has been re-drawn between two superpowers – North America and Russia, with a fragile peace kept between them out of fear of a third bugger invasion. Card later revised the novel due to the collapse of Soviet Union 1991 to give it a more updated political profile. The fear of a third invasion not only keeps the superpowers from blowing each other up, but it also serves as means to maintain total control of the civilians, as the m...

Summer Reading

Schoolz out for the summer! For the next two months, I won't have to learn anything new about odontology, medicine, or the physical properties of dental cements. Also, I can finally read for fun again . I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I have fallen out of love with reading, and at that time it really did feel that way. Now, I feel like I'm getting my bookworm mojo back, and I'm already working on my next book review. I have also assembled a short and preliminary list of books I want to read this summer. Some of them are new to me, but there are a few re-reads as well.  I bought my copy of The House of Binding Thorns on a whim because I loved the cover. Also, I almost never read anything by French authors, and I'd like to change that. Endymion is, of course, the third book in the Hyperion Cantos series. The first two books completely blew me away. Honestly, not a day goes by that I don't think about those stories.  The two re-r...