en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/10289584 Comments by notanicewriter http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/01/mark-reads-battle-magic-chapter-1/#IDComment1009441889 Stretch this out, Mark, please? I don't know what I'll do without your Reads to look forward to! Though Young Wizards is one of my all-time favorites! I can't begin to tell you how much this site and you and your readers have meant to me! Fri, 8 Jan 2016 15:41:33 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2016/01/mark-reads-battle-magic-chapter-1/#IDComment1009441889 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-21/#IDComment1008414487 But before Meryem was rescued by Oswin she saw her family murdered by pirates and lived by scavenging on her own. All of Oswin's kids are rescued from pirate attacks. Meryem runs when she's frightened or she wants to say no because a brutal period in her life taught her that no one paid attention when she said no. She hasn't had a stable, secure family for long enough that she can work her way free of the behaviors she developed to survive on her own. Neither has Envy. Fri, 1 Jan 2016 15:22:45 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-21/#IDComment1008414487 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-19/#IDComment1008023263 Mark, WanderingUndine & Co. are right. Glaciers grind big rocks, like mountains, like Himalayas, down to little rocks, like Appalachians and then to sand. And there's no reasoning with them--they know only forward or up (evaporation). But they prefer forward. And then there's the sea . . . Life is such a parlous thing, but the point is how we adjust to it, whoever (whatever) we are. And it's always what becomes of the parlousness and of our adjustment. Mon, 28 Dec 2015 16:41:52 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-19/#IDComment1008023263 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-17/#IDComment1007335685 Mark, I'll make it up to you in a few years, if you find time to read what happens to Numair as a young mage. Or . . . on second thought, maybe it won't make it up to you, with the betrayal, and the crocodiles, and the assassins, and stuff. Never mind. }8-) Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:51:36 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-17/#IDComment1007335685 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-17/#IDComment1007335557 I'm a bad me. Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:49:38 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-17/#IDComment1007335557 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-16/#IDComment1006975720 Based on my spouse-creature, who takes in abandoned and feral cats. And me. 8-) Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:48:56 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-16/#IDComment1006975720 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-15/#IDComment1006791121 That poem is so wonderful! (Envy is screaming and pounding my shoulder and shouting, "Yes! Yes! One of your people knows!") Tue, 15 Dec 2015 16:15:20 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-15/#IDComment1006791121 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-14/#IDComment1006363487 Mark, thanks so much for your compliments about my writing! I sweat blood over passages like these, btw--it's a struggle to work out the magic in such a way that others can see and follow it easily! Tammy Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:10:53 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/12/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-14/#IDComment1006363487 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/11/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-8/#IDComment1004794115 Only because Envy needs a way to think of them, to keep them distinct in her own mind. Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:37:14 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/11/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-8/#IDComment1004794115 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/11/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-3/#IDComment1003298489 As a side note, Mark, and one you and everyone else might like, I'd been tackling this book as a third person novel, still from Evvy's POV, but it wasn't working. Then we started to record STREET MAGIC with Full Cast Audio, and the moment I heard Grace Kelly (her real name) read Evvy, her voice put the hook in me. I tossed what I had and rewrote everything in first person, hearing Evvy's voice all the way! Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:59:37 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/11/mark-reads-melting-stones-chapter-3/#IDComment1003298489 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/11/mark-predicts-melting-stones/#IDComment1002476996 Mark, Heeheeheehee! Tammy ::scampers off:: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 15:50:56 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/11/mark-predicts-melting-stones/#IDComment1002476996 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/10/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-20/#IDComment1002216878 Thank you, folks. And thank YOU, Mark! Mon, 2 Nov 2015 17:18:54 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/10/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-20/#IDComment1002216878 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/10/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-15/#IDComment999756786 Mark, I only hope the triggering from this didn't last long. I never want to cause you pain. Fri, 16 Oct 2015 21:26:35 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/10/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-15/#IDComment999756786 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/10/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-11/#IDComment998292677 BTW, Mark? I based Zhegorz on Alice Cooper. Just wanted to share. I LOOOOOOVE Alice Cooper. Wed, 7 Oct 2015 18:54:05 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/10/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-11/#IDComment998292677 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/10/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-11/#IDComment998292445 You study with Nnedi Okorafor? May I touch your keyboard?!!!! Wed, 7 Oct 2015 18:51:49 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/10/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-11/#IDComment998292445 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/09/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-5/#IDComment995669465 I look at other women and don't resent their beauty. If they are cruel, I'll change my mind, but people can't help their looks, and it's nice to appreciate physical beauty in all its forms. There's no point in resenting people for their attractiveness--they have no more influence over such things than I do. Fri, 18 Sep 2015 17:23:49 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/09/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-5/#IDComment995669465 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/09/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-5/#IDComment995669136 Thank you so very much, Mark. Fri, 18 Sep 2015 17:21:16 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/09/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-5/#IDComment995669136 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/09/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-4/#IDComment995365234 I've worked in similar situations, when my co-workers and I realized there was a class difference between us and our bosses. They treated us decently, but there was always a barrier. And I saw the same class/income barrier in who was moving up at the bank where I worked, and who was eyed as an outsider because they came from the lower or middle class. Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:01:28 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/09/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-4/#IDComment995365234 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/09/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-4/#IDComment995365007 My college boyfriend was upper class and I was poverty class. Was there a power dynamic? He was just another student when we met, until we visited his aunt and uncle's house and I was blown away/intimidated. I knew he had more ready cash than me, but this was different. But I didn't care away from that house and his family. He was just my boyfriend. Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:59:07 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/09/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-4/#IDComment995365007 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/09/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-4/#IDComment995364792 Briar is not going to do that. If he sees the slightest twitch that a girl is unwilling, the slightest reluctance, he backs off. He lived too long in a society where women and girls were commonly forced to ever do it himself. Being with the Circle girls and teachers just added to that. And these days he knows how to behave in wealthy houses (the ones he doesn't pull apart with plants!). Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:56:57 +0000 http://markreads.net/reviews/2015/09/mark-reads-the-will-of-the-empress-chapter-4/#IDComment995364792