I picked this up for a dollar at our city’s big library sale, having never heard of it or the author, but intrigued by the cover. Nothing Daunted turned out to be quite the interesting read! Based on letters written to her grandmother, Dorothy Woodruff, and Dorothy’s best friend, Rosamond “Ros” Underwood, Wickenden pieced together the extraordinary lives of these two women, focusing on the year they spent teaching in the Rockies in 1916. Two society ladies, raised in great wealth and privilege, decided to take […]
Definitely not Ready Player One
I really tried to like this. I really liked Ready Player One — in fact, that was probably one of the best books I read all year. In fact, I almost used an Audible credit to purchase Armada, since I liked the audio version of Ready Player One so much (both read by Wil Wheaton). Luckily, the library had Armada available, and I was able to find out for free that Cline couldn’t duplicate the magic of his debut. “I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering […]
Ain’t worth a Bean
Ender’s Shadow is and always has been one of my favorite books in this series. Bean, even smarter than Ender and not hindered by all those guilty feelings, just fascinates me. As with the others, I listened to this on audiobook and the narrators continued their awesomeness. Ender’s Shadow acts as a companion novel to Ender’s Game — you don’t need to read Ender’s Game first, but I still recommend that you do. Ender’s Shadow works best to flesh out that already existing story. “That was interesting, to find that […]
A strange age
My library recommended this to me after I finished More Happy Than Not, and I can see why — while the plots have almost nothing in common, the style and theme seem similar. Basically, another coming-of-age story set against a slightly science fiction-y background (although the sci-fi in this story impacts the plot quite a bit more than the memory removal service in More Happy Than Not). “How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at […]