The first two of this series (“The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo”, and “The Girl Who Played with Fire”) were much more intense than this one, and were impossible to put down. This one was very slow for the first half of the book. And it had a rather anticlimactic ending. I rate the first two as fives, but this one only merits a four.

It seems that my friends are frequently the motivating factor for major updates to my web site. A few months ago, my friend Tommy told me about using business cards at job interviews. I realised that if I was going to do this, I ought to have a web site already prepared. So I re-configured my dot com domain so that instead of redirecting to this one, it now hosts its own material.

Also, I've been revamping this site. I've started using a lightweight blog software, that is much better than using the quick-n-dirty custom kludge I started with. Much less fuss now, as I no longer have to keep it all in a single file, and I don't worry about the timestamps any more.

Another bit of news: I've added a reading list and a wishlist to the web site.

So far in the Ender series, I've read “Ender's Game”, “Speaker for the Dead”, “Xenocide”, and this book. I've thoroughly enjoyed them all.

I liked the different spin it puts on science fiction: The narrator is a teenage girl.

This book covers the evidence in support of the historical accuracy of the New Testament Documents regarding the life and teachings of Jesus.