Journal Entry 1 by nimrodiel from Evanston, Illinois USA on Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Purchased from the friends of the library booksale.

Elengil's father loved it. I have a moral dilemma, I love the other books I've read by Oraon Scott Card in the past. His Ender series and Alvin the maker series are both up on the places of best books I've read. However, he aired some very prejudiced thoughts in regards to gay marrige laws a few years back that really infuriated me. It dropped my esteem of the author enough that I won't read anything else of his. Which is sad as I never got to finish the Alvin books.

Hopefully this finds a more appreciative reader. 

Journal Entry 2 by nimrodiel at Evanston, Illinois USA on Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Anyone who's read Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong knows about the devastating consequences that Columbus's voyage and ensuing colonization had on the native people of the Americas and Africa. In a thought-provoking work that is part science fiction, part historical drama, Orson Scott Card writes about scientists in a fearful future who study that tragic past, then attempt to actually intervene and change it into something better.
Tagiri and Hassan are members of Pastwatch, an academic organization that uses machines to see into the past and record it. Their project focuses on slavery and its dreadful effects, and gradually evolves into a study of Christopher Columbus. They eventually marry and their daughter Diko joins them in their quest to discover what drove Columbus west.

Columbus, with whom readers become acquainted through both images in the Pastwatch machines and personal narrative, is portrayed as a religious man with both strengths and weaknesses, a charismatic leader who sometimes rose above but often fell beneath the mores of his times. As usual, Orson Scott Card uses his formidable writing skills to create likable, complex characters who face gripping problems; he also provides an entertaining and thoughtful history lesson in Pastwatch. --Bonnie Bouman
 

Journal Entry 3 by nimrodiel at Evanston, Illinois USA on Tuesday, August 02, 2011

I'm sending this to prettypoodle to help stock an OBCZ shelf