Spacekat Tommy
Spacekat
Ender's Game was the reason i started reading sci-fi. Everything introduced to me at school via english class was complete garbage and boring in my eyes(minus 1984, love that book), and one day in class, for some strange reason, i "forgot" to bring 'Animal farm' to school.. i hated the book.. no passion to read it...
8th grade Ms. Divarco was all "GO TO THE BOOKSHELF FIND A BOOK, AND READ IT. YOU BETTER HAVE YOUR BOOK FROM NOW ON.."
Funny part is, i found Ender's Game on the shelf.. read it.. was fascinated.. excited even.. Returned it to the shelf after class was over.
The book was constantly on my mind for the next several days, and was itching at me, i really wanted to finish reading it.
A week or so later i found myself staying late after school for an art club project.. While walking from my locker to the art room, with no one else in the hall in either direction, i passed the english class. The door was open, and i peeked inside her room. She was not in the room.
Half of me was thinking "wait for her to come back, or go find her and ask to borrow the book", but my childish side was so afraid she would say no.. So i ran to the bookshelf, right where i left it, grabbed it, and dashed out of the room.
I read the book 4 times that year over and over.. and many times after that. I loved it, and since then i bought several copies for myself and friend's kids, as its a great starter sci-fi in my opinion.
The rest of the Ender series followed when i was in my 20s along with the tangents including Bean and Peter.
Somewhat recently the guilt of stealing the book had caught up to me, and i looked her up to see if she was still teaching, as i was going to buy several of the books and donate them to the classroom i stole them from.
She unfortunately had moved on and i couldn't find her.
I'm sure in a way, she would be both disappointed that i stole the book at that age rather than asking, but at the same time, thrilled because it was the book that got me into reading.
It is what it is i guess.
8th grade Ms. Divarco was all "GO TO THE BOOKSHELF FIND A BOOK, AND READ IT. YOU BETTER HAVE YOUR BOOK FROM NOW ON.."
Funny part is, i found Ender's Game on the shelf.. read it.. was fascinated.. excited even.. Returned it to the shelf after class was over.
The book was constantly on my mind for the next several days, and was itching at me, i really wanted to finish reading it.
A week or so later i found myself staying late after school for an art club project.. While walking from my locker to the art room, with no one else in the hall in either direction, i passed the english class. The door was open, and i peeked inside her room. She was not in the room.
Half of me was thinking "wait for her to come back, or go find her and ask to borrow the book", but my childish side was so afraid she would say no.. So i ran to the bookshelf, right where i left it, grabbed it, and dashed out of the room.
I read the book 4 times that year over and over.. and many times after that. I loved it, and since then i bought several copies for myself and friend's kids, as its a great starter sci-fi in my opinion.
The rest of the Ender series followed when i was in my 20s along with the tangents including Bean and Peter.
Somewhat recently the guilt of stealing the book had caught up to me, and i looked her up to see if she was still teaching, as i was going to buy several of the books and donate them to the classroom i stole them from.
She unfortunately had moved on and i couldn't find her.
I'm sure in a way, she would be both disappointed that i stole the book at that age rather than asking, but at the same time, thrilled because it was the book that got me into reading.
It is what it is i guess.