Happy Thursday! Our Core Concentration blog prompt for today is to name our favorite book that we've read so far this year and explain why it is our favorite.
When I first read the prompt, I wasn't sure if it meant what our favorite book we'd read in class was or our favorite book that we had read for leisure or Reading Counts. I've decided to name the latter, which was Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card.
The book is about a street urchin in the distant future, born as a genetic experiment in a world where that's possible though highly illegal. In the world, a race of aliens called the Formics, commonly known as the Buggers, have invaded the earth twice and the world is in constant fear of a third one. It's a parallel novel to the more famous Ender's Game, which I read last year. The book follows Ender's friend, Bean, through his early life and his admission and time in Battle School serving and befriending Ender. It also follows him as he connects his past and goes through the last book's climax, ending when Bean finds out who he really is and what his future could mean.
One of the things I liked about the book was the writing and overall the plot. I liked that the author fleshed out some of the characters from the previous book, Bean included, and gave full closure on what Bean was feeling and thinking when Ender was becoming himself. It explained his back story in great detail and showed us how complex and developed the character really was. In other words, it showed Bean coming out of being "Ender's shadow".
When I first read the prompt, I wasn't sure if it meant what our favorite book we'd read in class was or our favorite book that we had read for leisure or Reading Counts. I've decided to name the latter, which was Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card.
The book is about a street urchin in the distant future, born as a genetic experiment in a world where that's possible though highly illegal. In the world, a race of aliens called the Formics, commonly known as the Buggers, have invaded the earth twice and the world is in constant fear of a third one. It's a parallel novel to the more famous Ender's Game, which I read last year. The book follows Ender's friend, Bean, through his early life and his admission and time in Battle School serving and befriending Ender. It also follows him as he connects his past and goes through the last book's climax, ending when Bean finds out who he really is and what his future could mean.
One of the things I liked about the book was the writing and overall the plot. I liked that the author fleshed out some of the characters from the previous book, Bean included, and gave full closure on what Bean was feeling and thinking when Ender was becoming himself. It explained his back story in great detail and showed us how complex and developed the character really was. In other words, it showed Bean coming out of being "Ender's shadow".
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