Fiction

Last week I read Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi. It was very good and interesting. Scalzi wrote about how it came about to write this book which retold the story of The Last Colony from the point of view of a teen aged girl. He said that trying to find an authentic voice of such a character was difficult. Several (male) friends suggested hanging out with Juvenal girls. That was rejected as just weird. He turned to his women friends including his wife who coincidentally had once been teen girls themselves and got some inspiration from his 9 year old daughter. All in all it was a good read and cleared up some omissions from the earlier book. It certainly can stand on its own.

Inside the back cover of my copy of Die Trying is a disturbing picture of Tom Cruise promoting the Jack Reacher movie. They have altered little Tommy so that he appears like the gorilla of man as Mr. Child describes him.