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TexasProgresive

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3. "Zoe's Tale" by John Scalzi

Sun Jun 12, 2016, 01:50 PM

Jun 2016

This is an interesting and fun read. It is the retelling of The Last Colony as told by a 15-17 year old girl. I'd be really interested in the opinion of women who remember how they and their friends were as teenager girls if Scalzi gets it right.

Zoe is like her 90 year old Dad all about irony and sarcasm. She meets her BFF Gretchen who is cut from the same cloth. The Last Colony was a good read and this one is turning out to be good in a whole 'nother way.

I can't post without mentioning the horror that has struck once again, this time in Orlando. It makes for a sad Sunday. The President is soon to speak for the 15th time on this kind of mass slaughter. As bad as I feel, I think of this man.

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