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It was pretty decent for Louis to write. I was expecting more and somewhere in the middle it became slow and picked back up near the ending. I was hoping Lily would have said "Yes" to Ossie's proposal. But if she did then the story would have changed completely. The ending keeps it open enough to want to read the rest of the series.

I really like the realistic way that Bob Greene looks at dieting. I have been following Phase 1, and I have lost almost ten pounds. I am not an emotional eater, but I think it is great how he addresses the subject. I love the hungry scale and the food ideas. I am not sure how realistic it would be to follow phase 3 for life, but I am going to try to take on a lot of these ideas into my diet for the long term.

I read The Sign of the Book right after reading ROCKETS IN URSA MAJOR and exactly like ROCKETS IN URSA MAJOR it feels as if the book was written more than twenty years earlier. There's nothing wrong with releasing now a book that was written back then. But in the first chapters the author, as character and narrator, thinks back on how things have changed with the ubiquitous presence of the Web. That places us in the late 90s or early 21st century, right? The trouble here is that all through the novel many of the sub-plots depend on things like the absence of cell phones. Oopsie! Cell phones became ubiquitous pretty much in step with Web ubiquity. If you tell me that there's one in this universe and then present me with the absolute absence of the other, then you've lost me. I'm too busy finding odd things as I read, to get really absorbed by the plot or the characters. Then, like many a good detective fic writer the author creates nice "atmosphere" details at a certain technological level. But that level has changed in the last twenty years all across the USA. People in remote Colorado communities have cable TV or satellite TV now. They also have GPS systems. All that nice "atmosphere" seems mind-bogglingly fake now.

A powerful work. I am thinking about it again as I read its sequel, The Years of Extermination. To my mind, Nazi Germany was able to nearly carry out its act of genocide by removing first the citizenship and then the humanity of the Jewish people. They also counted on the acceptance of both their own and other European peoples of this action. It is a warning that we must always be wary of labeling people as "the other", whether it be American Muslims looking to build a cultural center in New York City or seeking to revise the 14th Amendment to "protect" us from "anchor babies" or "terror babies".