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Andrew Melnichuk tankgrobovf26d — Some lame dude left this at my house when he was kickin' it to me. After he crossed me I figured I'd keep it and read it before giving it back, but now he doesn't work with me anymore. I would have no problem giving this book back. I really didn't like it. I've read almost all David Sedaris's other stuff and loved it, but this just didn't do it for me. The only redeeming (and I would say 4-star story) part was the "Santaland Diaries." Awesome. Other than that, I wouldn't bother reading this book. Read something else he's written 'cause it's usually awesome.

Diogo A diogosilva — Bought this in Bath whilst on a visit with my friend, and had to keep reading out bits to her because she wanted to know what i was laughing at. The insite into Darcys thoughts!!

Priyanka Chakraborty priyankac — Life in America after civil War from Reconstruction Richmond o the Great Plains.

Lorena Cerqueira lolobolha97 — Really enjoying this book -- I thought it would be slow, moving back into the middle ages, but instead this is really fast moving, exciting and interesting. I keep wondering how this woman kept herself hidden for all these years, and how in the world she managed to keep herself alive. Every other chapter, I'm wondering how she isn't dead yet. But she's smart, inventive, misses nothing -- and she's close-mouthed and shy. (A lot like me!) Great writing, interesting medieval perspective. I just hope she stays alive to the end of the book! This book overall was just mesmerizing. The stoy was really ingeniously plotted -- I absolutely loved the brilliant suspense!

Clemente Massaro massarocl — Another book that caters to my love for all things grammar related. I loved diagramming sentences in 8th grade honors english, and Florey's book presents an entertaining discussion of the origin of diagramming sentences, and even goes into attempts to diagram sentences by authors like Proust. High brow entertainment.

Cayla Mcmanaman _ayla_c_anaman — As a Go player who knew the rules and not much else before opening this book, I found Kim's work extremely valuable. I came out with a working understanding of the purpose and structure of Go's opening, midgame, and endgame, as well as what kind of moves achieve the objectives of each phase. Especially helpful was the titular Way of the Moving Horse: thinking about positions in terms of the connections between stones. This book certainly did not enable me, a novice, to follow every move of a subtle game between 5-dan players, but it helped me see the contours: what each side was driving at and how they played to achieve it. I finally feel like I'm gaining the foundation I need to learn Go by playing Go, something hard to do without instruction.

Edson Mateus _dson_ateus — 3.5 Stars Devon Monk has given us a world where magic exists, but it's not a pretty world. There are steep prices for using magic of any sort, and as always, there are ways to circumvent the system. Allie's gift allows her to track those that would wish to hide their magical doings. She prefers to go her own way, forgetting the blood she shares with the man who made harnessing magic possible - her father. When the story opens it's Allie's birthday, and she's determined to do something nice for herself. Unfortunately, her plans go awry and she ends up getting called out the Hound when a boy gets deathly sick. When that hounding leads her to believe her father is responsible for this illegal Offload, Allie goes to confront him. Seven years since she's seen him last, and all the old bitterness and disappointment comes back so easily - especially when she finds out her father has hired a man, Zavyion Jones, to trail her. She thought she had all the shocks that would come her way, but she was wrong. It was just beginning. I really enjoyed that the world the Devon Monk created was gritty. The use of magic left a residue that you could smell and feel in the air, the earth, the water. The characters can set Disbursements that allow the magic offload to be handled in a specific way, sometimes through proxies and sometimes through specific effects on themselves. It's a well realized world, filled to the brim with possibilities. I think there's a lot of room for us to see more here. I really enjoyed experiencing this book through Allie. She's a strong, stubborn, honorable person. She likes helping people, using her magic to protect and do good, and has her own set of code that she tries to live by. I also really like that she can at turns be impulsive, rash even, and at others she can be extremely cautious. She doesn't mind paying the price for using her magic, accepts it as the cost of living how she wants to. I find this admirable, but I have a problem with it too. One of her major costs of doing magic is memory loss - hours, days, weeks, months? I'm not sure if I can trust her to be a reliable narrator, to actually move forward into any sort of life, and the one thing measure she's taken to make sure she doesn't forget forever is writing in a notebook. But the notes she writes are inconsistent, vague, and not detailed enough, in my opinion. However, this is a minor complaint. There are some alternating third-person point-of-view scenes in this book too, but they felt unnecessary unless that character comes to be more important in the future. Then there's Zavyion. Allie was very drawn to him from the beginning, even against her own better judgement. He's an intriguing character. I feel like we didn't get to know enough about him as he spent a good portion of the book evading answering any questions. But I do know that his actions spoke fairly loud and I want to know him more. The pacing of the story felt a little slow to me. While I was curious the entire time I was reading, it took me about 90 pages to really get interested in what was going to happen. What I didn't like is that there seemed to be far too much talk, and little action. Allie does some magic and then spends the next 75 pages talking about what she learned, what it could mean, what she should do now. I would have liked some more action. Though I can appreciate that a first book in a series is going to take some time setting everything up. Overall, I enjoyed this intro to Allie Beckstrom's world, though I felt there were some areas that could have drawn me in even more. If you're looking for a gritty world with depth, and a strong heroine, then I'd definitely recommend trying Devon Monk's Magic to the Bone.