Bronwyn Knox
This wasn't quite what I was expecting based on the book summary, but it was a worthwhile read.
What compelled me in the narration was seeing all of this through Christopher's eyes, and making all kinds of interpretations and projections about the emotions and behavior of his parents and the neighbor couple and everyone else Christopher interacts with. Christopher can reliably state the facts of what was done and said but the reader fills in a lot of the blanks about what those characters were feeling and about what Christopher is feeling, and any underlying issues and backstory. Haddon leaves the reader to do the work and that's a good thing.
The other thing I noted was the structure. Christopher tells the reader what happened but after a particularly intense moment he'll shift to a different section where he talks about a math puzzle or game or some other bit of science. The reader experiences his shift away from whatever it is he's trying not to have to feel.
The narrator is a unique individual and however readers diagnose him, it is specific to him, even if others find it relatable (and hopefully they do).
Vampire horror story blended with a revenge fantasy and fast-paced action thriller.
It is part of the same world as the Lesser Dead (there's a brief reference to one of the characters from that book) so the same vampire “rules” apply.
Set in the late sixties, this is also historical fiction. The vampires in the title “club” seem inspired by the Manson family and the Stuntman from Tarentino's film, Death Proof.
Quite an adrenaline booster. Recommended if you like fast-moving, fun horror books.
“He wanted what evil men always want: to have power and use that power to make mischief.”
― Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King takes on the sword-and-sorcery variety fantasy novel. That's the best way to sum up this book. The plot is very clever. I enjoyed the way the hero and his allies solved the problem of getting him out of his prison. The solution is unexpected and made for a delightful story, with elements from earlier in the book coming into play.
I was less fond of the Randall Flagg character, (name and maybe character recycled from The Stand) who didn't seem to have a good reason for his evil plot. Yes, he wanted to create chaos in the kingdom just for the sake of seeing the destruction. It wasn't enough for me. None of the characters in this story are very complex I suppose, but I'm always expecting more from a Stephen King villain.
It's a fun, easy read that you can share with your kids.
I guess you can't do a story about a circus or a carnival without it being weird, quirky, and a bit dangerous. This story has all those things. Also it's taking place in turn-of-the century Europe when life was much harder for everyone.
The main story is a romance between Fevver, a woman with swan wings, headliner of the circus and former orphaned ward of a whore house and Walser, journalist and war correspondent. He's looking for a less dangerous occupation; she loves to be a star.
There isn't a strong driving plot. Most of this is incidents or episodes that take place as the circus visits various cities in Europe. A lot of the content is backstory about the various members in the circus troupe.
Carter sets up overarching themes of feminism, mostly showing various women who are better off without the men in their lives. At one point, readers meet a prison full of women who have all poisoned their husbands and probably for good reason.
The lead character, though, suffers a breakdown of her ego and doubt in her ability to defend herself so I'm unclear how that fits into the overall feminist “women don't need men” themes. I do see that the same thing happens to her male counterpart who loses his dignity, his mind, and his identity before he is finished with the circus and ready to join Fevver in love and partnership.
There is a lot of humor and I found the backstories of the characters very engaging. The writing style is very dense, despite the deceptively short length. It's also a bit uneven. Each part of the book has a different style, from one character telling a story to another, to third-person omniscient, to first person.
There's something about Jasper Fforde. The premises described in the summaries of his novels always sound weird and silly, but once you sit down with the book they're perfectly engaging and believable.
My working theory of why this is so is because he writes with a first-person protagonist who takes the situation deadly seriously, and so I do too. (Mostly first-person narrative, this one flip-flopped around a bit because I suppose the reader needed certain info that Thursday couldn't have.)
Having said that, this is a far from deadly serious book. There's lots of wit and deadpan humor. Probably a fun one for readers who like both science fiction fantasy and classic literature.
My favorite thing, which will be in my head for years to come, is the Rocky-Horrorization of Richard III that happens in this book. Don't know if real performances like this exist or if it's Fforde's wild imagination but it sure was fun to picture.
The Gone Way World was such a delight. It had everything I could ask for: action and character building, friendship and romance, mentors and villains. There were both surprises and things I saw coming, but which still happened in a compelling way. There was lots of humor but also emotionally moving bits.
There was something about it that was larger than life and not always fully believable but the story was so good and I was so invested that it didn't take away my enjoyment.
The promotion quote on the cover quote mentions Pratchett and Pynchon, Vonnegut and Heller.
I can see the Pratchett and Vonnegut comparison, but I admit I'm not knowledgeable enough on Pynchon and Heller. I'd throw a little Philip K. Dick in there myself. It's also got dystopian vibes similar to [b:Oryx and Crake|46756|Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)|Margaret Atwood|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1494109986l/46756.SY75.jpg|3143431] and Weird fiction elements like [b:Annihilation|17934530|Annihilation|Jeff VanderMeer|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403941587l/17934530.SX50.jpg|24946895].
Explores the notion of where dark ideas come from for those who write horror or thriller/violent stories. There's a supernatural, physical manifestation of the protagonist's “dark half.” The story builds up quickly into a chilling horror/thriller with a great ending that manages to be just what I want as a reader, “surprising but inevitable.” King's endings don't always work for me. I've read some books of his that were going along so well and then the finale ruins everything. Not so with this one. It's good from start to finish and never a dull moment.
The witches sub-series of Discworld is always entertaining. I can't think of one of the five I don't care for. This is the subseries where Pratchett seems to have the most fun spoofing other classic works: Shakespeare, fairy tales and, with this and Carpe Jugulum, classic gothic horror novels (Phantom of the Opera and Dracula).
I am especially fond of this and Carpe Jugulum because of Agnes. Susan and Tiffany were wonderful young leading ladies but I really longed for more Agnes. The split in her mind with her alter-ego Perdita is incredibly relatable. If you feel that what you're expected to be (the good girl, the capable one) doesn't always fit with what you really feel you are or could be, then you get it. We are not always at our best when we're on our best behavior, and this is well illustrated with Agnes. Perdita is Agnes' daring, bitchy, glamorous side coming out, and who knows what Agnes could achieve if she didn't behave all of the time?
There's a common theme in the Discworld books of talented young outsiders who are looking for their place in the world. With her supernatural singing ability, Agnes hopes to find a future on stage, or at least out of small-town Lancre where her choices are limited to wife or witch. It takes the events of the this book, plus “meddling” on the part of Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax for her to get the idea that the stage, and the shallow life of showbiz where usually the thin and pretty are favored, might be limiting and not enough for someone as talented as Agnes.
Throughout Maskerade is (of course) the theme of masking your true identity. The most obvious case is Henry Slugg, a very Ankh-Morporkian singer who pretends to be foreign-born Sr. Basilica. Granny Weatherwax gets in on the act, pretending to be a grand lady in order to infiltrate the Ghosts Box at the Opera. Walter Plinge and Agnes are the most interesting/least shallow of these masked identities and they both suffer in roles that the world has placed on them.
“You want to be something else and you're stuck with what you are,” said Agnes “I know all about that. You're lucky. All you have to do is put on a mask...”
Walter masquerades as a simpleminded handyman who works in the opera house. It's slowly revealed that there might be much more to him. The central mystery of Maskerade is whether or not what he's repressing is a personality capable of multiple murders.
There are other things to love about Maskerade.
1. The humor is dead funny: dark, cynical, silly, sarcastic, slapstick, as well as fun cameos from other Ankh Morpork regulars.
2. A heroic fantasy story with older women as the heroes seems to be a rare thing. Nanny Ogg gets to shine here, her social skills and ability to win other people's trust are indispensable and even Granny admits that it's a kind of magic that she never excelled at. Nanny is more than just Granny's sidekick and balancing force. Part of the power of the old witches is that they know themselves very well and have all the confidence that comes with that. In contrast, they don't spend time doubting their identity. (“-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?
-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.”)
3. Even if you're not big on opera, this book would probably appeal to theater kids, which I was. The backstage excitement, rehearsals, “show must go on” , the professional jealousy, it's all a part of the fun and very well portrayed here. (I can see bits of my old self in Agnes and Christina.)
The literary parody and Scooby-doo style mystery might seem a bit silly superficially but there's so much good stuff here.
The plot is like a Lovecraft-inspired video game. There's NPC's giving Cabal information, tasks that have to be performed, and boss battles. Even his traveling companions could be looked at as extra lives/cannon fodder. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I see that the author wrote for video games so that may have put it in my mind.
There was an unexpected twist at the end that was nicely done. Like the first two Cabal books, it's very witty and entertaining. Never a dull moment.
Pyramids is an often overlooked entry into the Discworld series. It's a story about Teppic, a young person exposed to new cultures (Ankh Morpork), and brings this to his home, a place that has kept to itself, unchanged for hundreds (thousands?) of years. Later books explored similar themes with the Dwarf storylines in the Night Watch subseries and Small Gods.
Pyramids of a science fiction element than usual on the Disc, with the pyramid blocks that are moved via a time warping/quantum mechanics that causes crazy temporal hijinks. It's as interesting a solution to the problem as any I've seen. There's also the Idea of a pyramid shape that creates “null time” inside so the buried king would “live forever.”
When Teppic becomes king of Djelibeybi (meant to reflect our ancient Egypt, he inherits an advisor named Dios, who also advised his father, and his father before him. Dios represents resistance to change in all forms, including his own freakish longevity.
There is humor in the absurdity/impracticality of repeating the same things without thought. For instance, when Teppic does/says anything at court he's supposedly “presiding” over (Dios actually making all the calls), Dios must announce all of Teppics titles “Harken to the interpreted wisdom of Teppicymon XXVIII, Lord of the Heavens, Charioteer of the Wagon of the Sun, Steersman of the Barque of the Sun, Guardian of the secret knowledge, Lord of the Horizon,...” etc.
Pyramids connects to the rest of the series, notably with an inside look at the Assassins school in Ankh Morpork, run by Dr. Cruces.
One of my favorite things in Pyramids is You Bastard, a camel who is the greatest mathematician on the Disc. Pratchett had a gift for creating these animal characters who are outside of, and most of the time above, the main action of the stories.
Reading this a second time, I moved it from three to four starts. On the first read, I wasn't feeling that patient. I only sought it out because I wanted to read the series in published order. It suffers from being sandwiched between two more popular books, Wyrd Sisters and Guards! Guards!. It is a great story on its own, full of humor, adventure, and thoughtful content on youth vs. age and resistance to change.
Science Fiction and political satire, featuring a sociologist who heads off into space as an experiment and ends up in a replica of an American City on one of Jupiter's moons.The story is obvious commentary and the city is a microcosm of our world where the haves do anything to keep their place of power, including lies, propaganda and exploiting the fears and indifferent of people who just want to live. The conflict is intensified by adding what may or may not be an alien presence that scares the residents into paranoid silence. I enjoy the way Johnson structures his plots to increase in chaos all the way to the end, like a Mel Brooks movie. Invisible Things didn't have as much heart as [b:Loving Day 23164956 Loving Day Mat Johnson https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1420795734l/23164956.SY75.jpg 42710982] and it wasn't as funny as [b:Pym 8501708 Pym Mat Johnson https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320435734l/8501708.SX50.jpg 13367639], but it's still a good read. Johnson should be much more popular.
Even more entertaining than the first book, probably because I already have some background of the world and how it works.
Further develops the idea of characters entering and leaving books, including introducing an organization responsible for the training of characters and humans who have this knack. (I am in love with Miss Havisham.)
The humor is going strong and there's a little bit of goofy, self-awareness.
“Anything is possible right now. We're in the middle of an isolated high-coincidental localized entropic field decreasement”
“We're in a what?”
“We're in a pseudo-scientific technobabble.”
There are a lot of plot lines, all converging on Thursday at once. It makes for an exciting pace, although at times I wondered if it wasn't a bit much.
This book was so highly praised, I must have missed the point completely.
My experience consisted of 300+ pages of over-stylized prose with a narrator who is obsessed with her own thoughts and feelings. All of it headed towards an anticlimactic ending. This is all without any self-awareness or irony on the author's part.
The story and characters were so washed out and watery, yet given the subject matter, it should have been intense and colorful.
Cool premise: filmmaking and horror/occult from the writer of Mexican Gothic. She seems to have researched the films and filmmaking elements very well. I also liked that it was set in Mexico City, an urban area with different cultural and pop culture references than my own. The story itself had some potential, could make a fun movie perhaps. It is similar to a Friday the 13th (television series about the antique shop, not the films) episode.
Despite the potential, it didn't hold my interest. It's a short book but there is so much telling rather than showing and repeating information. The author gave us the main character's specific thoughts and feelings all the time instead of letting the reader figure out what the characters are experiencing based on behavior. This tends to flatten out rather than add depth to characters.
Without the repeated information, the reader could piece things together from what they read. She either doesn't trust the reader to figure things out or is in need of an editor. I got impatient and skimmed a lot while reading.
The chapters where the conflict starts to heat up were more entertaining. Ye1, it is difficult to have a menacing villain when he's already dead. Yes, I know, Voldemort, but in Silver Nitrate, it is not as effective. His two grande dame co-conspirators were slightly scarier. I did like the inky dogs.
Thus begins my horror novel marathon for 2023. I hope they get better.
Sweet and cute kinda-sorta sci fi. I'd group this in a category with Remarkably Bright Creatures where it is mostly a character/family drama story and using in this case alien invasion as the hook.
This is a pleasant and fun read. Nothing terribly challenging. There's some humor at times but I would have appreciated sharper edges. There isn't much conflict or depth. It's sort of a celebration of humans and America in particular with our bacon, cheese, plastics, and television.
I'd say if you are feeling down and in need of a light, cheery, and slightly oddball book to read, this is a good pick. Also, it helps if you love cats. There's a lot of words thrown at the reader about enjoying life and being human. Probably good advice.
I've been having a good time reading through the major Sherlock Holmes works. The short stories and the novels are fun mysteries, though I see more similarities in plots as I go along.
None of them have been quite as impressive to me as the first one, Study in Scarlet, so far. Valley of Fear is the closest to it in structure. There is a seemingly baffling murder, connected to a backstory that is told by a narrator who isn't Watson.
My only reservation about this one is the inclusion of Moriarty as a string-puller in the plot. I realize there must have been some audience expectation to include Moariaty but it feels forced.
Hoo boy. Humans, eh? Can't live with ‘em, can't get them to reproduce an alien hybrid race with you. We're “intelligent but hierarchical” but also racist, sexist, classist, homophobic, wasteful, violent, frightened, and destructive. After a nuclear war, the Oankali come along and offer us a better life, free from illness and pain and ageing. There's also free shelter and food without waste, a way to live with other creatures in a peaceful, mutually beneficial way. But we just can't get over how ugly the aliens are.
So they want us to give up our ability to breed as humans and make “construct” babies without touching our human mates. Is that so much to ask? Many of the humans in this book seem to think so, preferring sterility and struggle to the parental control of the Oankali.
Interesting as this all is, I found myself losing patience by the middle of the second book. The Oankali are benevolent, well-adjusted, maybe a little condescending. The human characters come off as a bunch of ineffectual children who don't know what's good for ‘em. Even Lilith seems to have simply accepted her fate. There really is no contest between the two groups.
I can appreciate and respect this series but find I'm not that into it. There's a lack of real tension despite the high stakes (the future of the human race!) and I can't work up much interest in the characters.
Carey is such a good storyteller. This was an absolute page-turner, especially in the last half.
This could almost have been one of his Felix Castor stories, but I'm glad it wasn't. I loved that most of the main characters were women, and especially women doing bad things, my favorite genre.
I was intrigued by the spirituality theory expressed in the book which seems to be that dreams and the world of the dead are very close.
It's not as unique as The Girl with All the Gifts. A lot of the story used prison and drug addict clichés that I've seen in other media. Also, some of the characters were unrealistically stupid and self-serving in order to build tension. (Or maybe I just have too much faith in humanity.) These minor criticisms didn't diminish my enjoyment of the book.
Eye-catching title, eh? Murder mystery with humor and lots of family drama. Dark comedy.
The gimmick is that the narrator is sort of an expert on the rules of conventional mystery writing and he uses his “knowledge” to solve several connected mysteries from his family's infamous history along with a “locked room” (more like an isolated resort) murder in their present.
It's entertaining and well structured. Some things are a tad implausible but nothing to spoil the overall experience.
Gillian Flynn has yet to let me down.This was a fun, quick read with lots of twists for a 65-page story.The homage mentions of books like [b:The Turn of the Screw 12948 The Turn of the Screw Henry James https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1567172392l/12948.SY75.jpg 990886], [b:The Haunting of Hill House 89717 The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327871336l/89717.SY75.jpg 3627], and [b:Rebecca 17899948 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386605169l/17899948.SX50.jpg 46663] put it nicely in the right zone for the spooky October season.
Weird Western with a decent plot and a few exciting moments.
I'm a big fan of this author and was really looking forward to this novel. There's a lot of action and at first I was compelled by the mysterious supernatural element. In order for those things to work for me, I need to enjoy the characters. It can be a sense of humor, quirkiness, vulnerability— just something that makes them entertaining and believable, more than just pieces of the plot. Usually, LaValle really delivers with this element.
I got absolutely no spark out of anyone in Lone Women.
The concept revolves around the idea of strong women fighting the odds and potential oppressors to make a life for themselves. I want more than “strong and independent.” Admirable doesn't have to mean dull and beyond reproach; this is a cautious and conservative way to go. The best character arc belongs to Joab Mudge, a thirteen-year-old boy who goes from one bad parental influence to another. Unlike the women, Joab is allowed to have rough edges and make terrible mistakes.
The major plot revolves around Adelaide Henry and the mysterious contents of the trunk she brings with her from California to Montana. This is the weird or supernatural element. It could have been a bit weirder for my taste. The big reveal, that the creature is Adelaide's twin sister, is something you can easily see coming. Feels like it's been done. The way to make it interesting would be to give Elizabeth an unexpected personality or take an action that forces a conflict with Adelaide. Instead, she's a plot device that thinks in verse..
There are several subplots in Lone Women which come together quite nicely with the above and are more interesting. It's a fast-moving story and doesn't hesitate in getting to the point. I was involved enough to keep reading it for the little time it took. Maybe the cost of this economy is underdeveloped characters?
Fairy Tale is a coming-of-age story, narrated by Charlie, a 17-year-old who discovers a passage to a fantasy world, parallel to our own. I found it entertaining enough with an adequate if not staggering story and mildly likable hero. Charlie narrates the story in the first person and when he gets to the other world, he mentions the fictional stories from our world that are similar to what he's experiencing, making this a meta comment on fairy tales/fantasy. I would have preferred it without this element and would rather make my own associations and connections.
As other reviewers pointed out, the beginning setup of the story goes very slowly. The backstory of his mother's death/father's drinking, Charlie's “deal with God,” and his friendship with Bowdtich and Radar are laid out. I don't mind a long Stephen King book or taking the time to develop characters but somehow these relationships in Fairy Tale are lacking conflict and depth. Yes, Bowditch is difficult and Charlie's reasons for helping him are complicated, but it still feels mundane. Charlie's motivation of saving Radar wasn't the most compelling but it was relatable for any of us that have ever watched a pet age and slowly pass on.
Once Charlie made the decision to go on a magical journey, my curiosity was piqued for the fairy tale world which had some interesting elements. There was some tension as Charlie reached his goal of helping Radar and then paid the price for it. I enjoyed the concepts of the Night Soldiers (and the solution for stopping them), the Fair One, and the Gray. I wish the “science” of the Night Soldiers and the Gray had been fleshed out (no pun intended) but that's no big thing. I appreciated seeing Charlie's development in terms of problem solving and taking responsibility. The final beast battle was unfortunately anticlimactic, as often happens with King. (I am still not over the final Dark Tower battle.)
Generally though, Fairy Tale was a bit bland and mild. It's similar to The Talisman, Eyes of the Dragon, or The Dark Tower but not as deep and intense. Stephen King Lite?
“Yet perhaps fear is no good thing. Perhaps it is only we, the fearful, who attempt to instill our own sense of urgency into others, who avoid reality, who deceive others into believing that only conflict and unhappiness leads us to the truth.”
This was a real pleasure to read. It's got humor, fun, adventure, romance. It's also weird and psychedelic, which I adore.
Moorcock starts us with a group of amoral humans from the far future who need nothing, can create fantasies at will, and have no responsibility. Ttheir lives are all sex and parties (incest is not off the table). As empty as it sounds, the good part is there is no want or or hate or violence or jealousy. Their world is a big toy until an alien arrives to alert them that the end of all time is coming.
With the arrival of a time traveller named Amelia from the Victorian age, it becomes a love story between her and end-of-time dweller, Jherek. Amelia is all about morality, purpose, responsibility. Jherek decides he must court her until she returns his affection. Much of the humor comes from the culture clash between the two of them. Amelia is an awesome character, clever, no nonsense, resourceful.
Eventually, Jherek and his fellow end of timers travel to Amelia's time as well. Wild, hilarious, and dangerous times ensue.
My only criticism of the book was that the end seemed a bit dragged out. Odd because this is actually three short (about 200 page) novels put into one volume. For the most part they moved pretty fast. But once the characters solved their problems, the denouement seemed stretched.
Micheal Moorcock has been around for a long time, but he's new to me. I'm really enjoying discovering his books and digging his humor, style, and imagination.
Grady Hendrix revolves his haunted house story around a pair of adult siblings who are dealing with the death of their parents and their own strained relationship. It is a strong character and relationship story with enough scary bits to satisfy horror fans as well.
I found Lousie and Mark to be relatable in some ways (Louise's desire to get away from home, her drive, Mark's frustrations and aimlessness) but they were also unlikeable (Louise's incredible denial and neurotic controlling behavior, Mark being a petulant dick). We saw most of the story through Louise's eyes and at times her attitude made me want to reach through the book and shake her.
There are little bits of humor, mostly in the dialogue, which Hendrix is great at. With the scary scenes, at times I realized what I was imagining could be quite absurd and silly, given the nature of the “items” that were possessed.
Great entertainment, escapist but smart.
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
This novel was a pleasant surprise. I read it as part of my exploration of magical realism and it ended up being my favorite of the books in this genre.
Among my favorite elements are the crazy slapstick and surreal scenes involving a being known as Woland (the devil) and his entourage, who came to Moscow to torment the Soviet literary elite of the time (1930s). The supernatural band also makes fools of the citizens of Moscow who come to his theatrical show, greedy for money and material possessions. I'm not deeply familiar with Russian history (though I do remember the basics) so some themes and allusions, as well as the people Bulgakov was satirizing, were probably lost on me, but it didn't stop me from enjoying the ride.
Oddly, the title characters don't come into the book until the second half. The lovers Master and Margarita are separated by the Master's struggle with his novel, which drives him to madness. His novel won't be accepted by publishers because it is not permitted to write about Christianity in a positive light. As much as I enjoyed the sillier stuff, I was emotionally invested in this part of the story.
Woland doesn't torment these two. He helps them as repayment to Margarita for hosting his demonic party. Woland seems less of an evil character to me but more of a mischief maker who is there to trick people who are already full of themselves anyway. (Traditionally we see the devil as there to tempt the innocent or the lost and despairing.) Woland exists to punish those who go along with what they are told and deny the truth. (One of the truths being that artists in Stalin's Russia are not allowed to be daring but only to write and enforce government propaganda.)
One of the most amusing bits is the epilogue of the story, in which the Moscow authorities spend time covering up all the damage that Woland and company have done. The surreal things people saw–all the people that end up in the mental institution, the deaths, the fire, the guy that was magically transported to Yalta–are all spun with some rational explanation.
Interspersed in the novel is a story about Pontius Pilate and the crucifixion of Jesus from Pilate's point of view. (It is relevant because this is the novel the master is working on.) Pilate is guilty of the same cowardice as the modern Russians because he feels inside it is wrong to destroy Yeshua (Jesus) but he goes along with it anyway. There's a variation on the Judas aspect of the story as well. Having been raised Catholic, I'm very familiar with the crucifixion story, and I appreciate an interesting re-telling.
This is one of those books that the more I think about it, the more I like it. I'm sure I will have to come back to it and reread it at some point.