{"id":4616,"date":"2018-07-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2018-07-15T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T21:28:00","slug":"mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-5-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2018\/07\/mark-reads-the-book-of-night-with-moon-chapter-5-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;The Book of Night With Moon&#8217;: Chapter 5, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first part of the fifth chapter of <i>The Book of Night With Moon<\/i>, the adult wizards guide Arhu to a wise figure. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read <i>Feline Wizards<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I truly don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d do without libraries. I definitely geeked out by the behind-the-scenes look at the main branch of the New York City Public Library in the opening of this chapter. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never been there, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a spectacular feat of engineering and architecture, of innovation and imagination. When I needed to do some follow-up research for my second book, I spent three successive weekends there from opening to close, thrilled by the creative energy that surrounded me. (And then I went to Muji across the street and spent way too much money, I LOVE THAT PLACE SO MUCH.) I mentioned this on video, but since the <i>other<\/i> branch (the circulation one) across the street is being renovated, there are technically <i>two<\/i> libraries in that one building right now, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AMAZING how they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve managed to combine them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So it makes perfect sense to me that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be a powerful feline wizard living among the stacks, hunting mice for the humans and generally just being the best. Libraries are <i>already<\/i> magical, powerful places, and like the metaphor of the train station, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy for me to believe that these locations would <i>also <\/i>house power wizardries. (And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m inclined to think that the rare books do talk to one another, like they do in the <i>Discworld<\/i> series.) I spent a great deal of time in the downtown Los Angeles branch last year, too, and I kept finding new areas, new places to write, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gotta be even cooler if you have access to all the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hidden\u00e2\u20ac\u009d places of a library. LOOK, I REALLY LIKE THINKING ABOUT THIS KIND OF STUFF, OKAY.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, with that aside, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear now that Arhu is deeply attached to&#8230; well, <i>everything<\/i>. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s part of this conflict and he <i>is<\/i> a conflict himself. Rhiow knew that, and I agree with Ehef; she hoped that Ehef would find an exception or a loophole, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the way the Powers That Be work. These wizards might not know why he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in their lives, but there are no coincidences with wizardry! I love that this messaged is spelled out through Ehef, though, because he is evidence of it in action. Would these cats have met if the Powers had not put them into the lives of one another? Ehef even calls out Saash at one point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yeah, well. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hold out much hope for <i>you<\/i> when we first met,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ehef said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d jump at the sight of your own shadow.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Saash glanced away. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And look at you now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus, they are here for a reason. Saash helps Arhu stay calm; Rhiow is fantastic at explaining all the complicated rules of the world; Urruah is perfect to help Arhu with street smarts, which he lacks. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deny that I would be just as frustrated as Rhiow is, though, because the timing of this is so terrible. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten confirmation that the Old Downsides is affecting the feline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s universe, which means that Rhiow is gonna have to go back down there. How is she supposed to do that on top of taking care of a rambunctious, rebellious kitten? Well, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got the skills, and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got two friends to help her out. So it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <i>possible<\/i> to do all of this at once; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just going to be <i>hard<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to see how this is gonna work out.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/3QIaLMGb8PA<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>My YA contemporary debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/AngerIsAGift\">ANGER IS A GIFT<\/a>, is now out in the world!\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>If you&#8217;d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ey636\">sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! 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