there are games afoot

enders game

we are playing games for july:)...

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

Ender's Game is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

i have the good fortune of knowing this man...

mr. willard card, who is the father of

orson scott card...

nicest man ever...

the woman in in the picture is orson's sister

and they told me that mrs. card, orson's mother,

transcribed this 

entire book by hand 

for orson. mrs. card was also there

but in the background. she is 91 years old...

he thought it was very cool that we were reading this book for our book club...

by the way...

this is a great book for guys and kids if you want to include them. jeremy read it and loved it and matt and i are going to listen to it on our drive to torrey on friday...

(if you haven't read "hunger games" and want to substitute it for this book, do that.)

they are also making a movie out of this book

starring harrison ford as 

colonel hyrum graff and 

asa butterfield as ender wiggin

something to look forward to:)

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i didn't send out an email for this month because i was just too busy but the theme for this month is really just anything patriotic...

if you want to share anything that makes you feel patriotic, use intstagram 

and i will add it here...

use the hashtag #endersgamejuly

we had so much fun with our wednesday word game on instagram 

last month,

i thought i would continue it for another while...

try this word out and see what we come up with...

lots of fires going on here in utah and it's very scary...

have a safe 4th of july...

bye...

more later...