We have looked forward to sharing the excitement with our son, and as soon as he reached his first birthday, we started thinking of building a theatre. In the past, both my husband and I were involved in hobby theatres, and we still like sewing costumes and having dress-up parties. Our family has always been fond of theatrical entertainment. I am proud to be making an addition to such a great resource.

You can find the stories of our exploits, described in the blog Adventure in a Box.Īnna kindly invited me to write a guest post, and I was happy to agree – she always inspires me with her descriptions of books, family trips and fun activities for children. We love to create things: when my husband does not make historical armour, he helps me make wooden toys for our son.

I come from Canada where my family lives in the picturesque region of grape vines and peach trees. At this rate two books down the line we will probably have a transcription of the Book of Mormon.Greetings to the readers of In the Playroom! My name is Liska. It seems to me that with every book Card gives up a little on making the series a well-rounded science fiction story and focuses a bit more on preaching his religious believes. You have exactly one guess who is responsible for this. Despite the fact that they are two of the most brilliant minds left on Earth, they go about it in such an unbelievably incompetent way that the embryos are kidnapped from under their nose in a completely transparent heist. Since this is the case, battleschoolers Bean and Petra are of course compelled to make some babies, like good little Mormons. Also, non-implanted, possibly unfertilized eggs in a tube are children, in case you didn't know. As does everyone else who is a good guy in this series. Mainly, to marry and have as many children as possible is the ultimate achievement of any human being and apparently even gay scientists who have been single all their lives eventually come to this realization. The rest Card dedicates mostly to espousing the Mormon point of view on life. However, that is about all that is worth it in this book. The geopolitical stuff with the war in Indochina is fairly interesting (now the Muslim coalition is entering the fray), as are Peter Wiggin's attempts to reclaim the Hegemony for himself. The character of Achilles has jumped the shark several books ago and is even more ridiculous in Shadow Puppets, succeeding in basically kidnapping the world government for himself, despite the fact that he has no support left anywhere in the world. The magical battle school children and Achilles are at it again.

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