Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
The Imaginary, by A.F. Harrold
Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down, by Dave Barry
Fiction Unboxed, by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant and David Wright (not pictured—because it’s an ebook)
This week I’m reading a sci-fi novel by one of the masters (and, sadly, have never read the Ender series) and an interesting kid-lit book by a new author. I’m studying the craft of humor columnist Dave Barry and the writing prowess of Platt, Truant and Wright, who produce a billion words a week (not really, but they’re fiction writing machines). Great stuff this week.
Best quotes so far:
“Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
Orson Scott Card
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
Orson Scott Card
“Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.”
Dave Barry
“Today’s beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.”
Dave Barry
Read any of these? Tell us what you thought.
