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Like you I’ve read a lot of Orson Scott Card’s books, some of which I’ve loved, and some I’ve disliked intensely. He seems to be an author who brings out strong emotional reactions in readers. People seem to either love or hate him.

Obviously, your reactions, pro and con, to Card's books are based on whether or not you liked the books themselves. A lot of the hatred for him, though, from what I've read (like some of the hatred for his fellow Mormon, Stephenie Meyer) is directed at his religious beliefs. In a world hostile to traditional faiths, believers who don't conceal their faith pay a certain price in the public square.

I’ve noticed a lot of faith based hate towards Card, but I’ve also encountered people who simply don’t like his books. And plenty of fans of course who can’t get enough of them. I’m somewhere in the middle ground.






It's worth a read, IMO. You might want to recommend it for your local public library, or your church library, if they have one.











Another one of my groups is doing a common read of Anthony Hope's 1894 action-adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda this month. Although I'd heard of the book, it wasn't really on my radar before this; but it turned out to be a much more satisfying read than I'd expected. My four-star review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... .




















https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... . This was a common read in one of my other groups; this discussion thread there, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... , has more discussion, and links to reviews in several journals.






Goodreads doesn't have a single entry for the three-volume set of The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories; so although I think of this as one long book that I've been intermittently reading for three years (and finally finished a few days ago), I've had to review each volume separately. It turns out that I never linked to my review of Vol. 2 here; so here are the links to that review and the one of Vol. 3: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... .
Finally, I did my end-of-the year review of 2018 on Goodreads yesterday. As always, I'm also linking to that one here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... .





I'll start the ball rolling with one of the latter, posted just a couple of days ago.