When you assume that Val is short for Valentine and not Valerie. Oops. That was awkward.

....Hell, Ender beat up two schoolmates, one on Earth, and one in Battle School, so bad that he killed them and had no repercussions from it. In fact, the first murder against Stilson was what made Graff decide to bring Ender with him in the first place. Then he knew that Ender had the courage to s...

When I read this book, I thought of a parallel to what it was like down in Ecuador. It was just after they were forced to adopt the US Dollar as their currency. While people claimed that this was the best way to handle their economic problems, the citizens hated it... ...you can see that this has h...