Jenny Rand Rand থেকে 31892 Erice, Navarra, Spain
See my reviews for each of the ten slave narratives in this volume. I do want to add, though, that it appears to me as if the "4.15" average rating for this book must be based on aesthetic grounds (i.e., some of the narratives are not well-written). There are two things I'd like to say about this: most of these narratives were written by ex-slaves who came more or less late to literacy in reading and writing; a little roughness around the edges is only to be expected (and there IS a certain aesthetic, different from other 19th-century American writings, evident in most of these works). Second, in my opinion ratings for this volume would be more sound if based on the job done by Andrews and Gates in editing it. That rating would only be of the highest order: the works chosen are uniformly important for various historical reasons and the editors have done an amazing job of reducing a wide range of critical writings into comprehensive biographical and textual notes that add to the texts themselves. This is an important book.
I read two of these short stories and decided I didn't need to finish. Not my brand of murder mystery, suspense books. Felt like the script for a scary movie. Just not my thing.
Lady Jeanne is going to Ren. While the ceremony is happening one of Ren's team members, Horohoro, run into a suicidal battle to help his friends the ice men. This book reminded me of a show called Bleech because in this book the charters have these powers all depending on how much mana they have along with spirit energy. In the show when the charters go into battle they have spirit energy and the more you have the stronger you are. This book wasn't all that great, but this book comes in volumes so maybe that'd why. I would give this book 2 stars because it wasn't that interesting. I would recommend this book to people who like to read comics but if you do read this book then I would read it from the beginning.