Shadows in Flight

Orson Scott Card's newer book, Shadows in Flight, was released in January and I, way behind the times, just recently read it.  Hey self!  Get with the program Self!

So.  The book.  It was like swimming in an ocean of literary and mentally stimulating material.  The end of the book was much like surfacing for air.  I found it interesting that Bean's 3 offspring with him on the interstellar journey called Bean the Giant.  It was just weird for a character that we always knew as Bean become the inscrutable being who watches over the younger's lives but only interferes like a scientist when necessary.  It also may be beneficial to compare Bean to the other Giant in the Ender saga of the Fantasy (Mind) Game.  Fantasy Giant: reflects children's need to have the test where they can never win and the best move is to just refuse to play.  Bean may seem to emulate this slightly in that he always must be one step ahead of his children though, with three of them working on three seperate endeavors.  The ship containing the antonines, as they call themselves, soon meets a ship in the innards of space near of planet that seems suitable for organic life.  This second contact with the Buggers brings a depth to past encounters that used to only belong to Ender Wiggin.  This next installment into the Wiggin saga is refreshing, enlightening, and mentally invigorating.  As is typical of Orson Scott Card, an enthusiastic 10 out of 10.  My only regret is that I am finished with the book.

~another musing of the ill-informed~

Since when have I posted here?

I am quite a good procrastinator.  I keep telling myself I will post but then I never do.  It has been almost a month since I did something here.  I hate myself for being able to procrastinate so well!  Too much fun!

So.  I have two posts written up but I don't feel like typing that right now.  So I'll go with Brave for now.  Good movie.  Girl gets tired of authority figures in her life not giving her any freedom.  Then she finds that when released from her bonds of regulations that her life is just a bit worse than it was before.  Therefore she goes meekly (if such a thing could be said of her behavior, thusly contradicting the title of the movie) back into the suffocating embrace of authority which left the audience thinking that this embrace had changed to become slightly more porous.  Sounds sort of like America except for that last part there.  That's not all that I took out of the movie, but that's what I choose to type out of these here fingers.  Overall, an interesting, thoughtful, structurally stereotypical, entertaining movie.

~another musing of the ill-informed~