Book Review: The Silver Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

Posted on February 28, 2024 by C.A. Jacobs

To finish out The Mage Wars trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon, I finished reading The Silver Gryphon (fantasy, 400 pages).

“A dozen years of peace have passed in the city of White Gryphon – but the inhabitants of this hard-won haven have not forgotten their struggles, and have trained an elite guard force, the Silver Gryphons, to protect their city. Skandranon, the Black Gryphon, and Amberdrake the healer, have settled into quite, comfortable lives. But things are not so tranquil for Silverblade, Drake’s daughter, and Tadrith, Skan’s son. Anxious to prove themselves, and despite their parents’ very real concerns, they have enlisted in the Silvers. After two years of rigorous training, Blade and Tad are finally given their first solo assignment – a remote guard post in wild, largely unexplored territory. Everything seems auspicious as Tad and Blade set off in the air, but three days out from White Gryphon disaster strikes – the two young guards plummet from the sky to the deep jungle below, struck down by an unseen enemy. Lost and badly injured, the desperate partners take stock of their situation: all their spell-fueled equipment – including their only means of communication – is inoperable, drained of all magic. But their troubles are just beginning. For in the dark of the tropical rain forest which surrounds them waits a nameless terror which even their fathers could never have envisioned.”

This was probably my least favorite book in this trilogy. I think part of my unhappiness for this book stems from the same unhappiness I found with the first book and that’s all about the mandatory het-pairings. When we first meet Silverblade, she’s the opposite of her parents and on purpose. She wants to be a fighter, a scout, an adventurer – someone who makes her own way and protects others from threats they may not see coming. But then she becomes like so many characters before her with a romantic and sexual subplot that takes over a good portion of her story. Many of her conversations revolve around an attractive man instead of talking about her and Tad’s situation.

While I did enjoy the resourcefulness of both Tad and Blade in this story, and how their actions showed a very keen understanding of survival situations in hostile areas, I found the references to Blade’s romantic interest annoying. I think that stems a lot from my exhaustion with every story having to have a romantic or sexual subplot and also with how much of your brain and body are focused on just surviving when you’re in a hostile survival situation. Maybe it’d be different if the wyrsa weren’t hunting Blade and Tad and they’d just have to hang out with the wreck of their equipment long enough for a rescue to take place because boredom in that situation is very real.

Anyway. Just because of the forced, mandatory-for-that-time het relationship, that bumps this book from a low three to a high two on my rating scale. I’m glad I own it but this is exactly why I haven’t reread this trilogy for decades :/

Lackey, Mercedes and Dixon, Larry. The Silver Gryphon. DAW Book Collectors, 1996.

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Book Review: the White Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

Posted on February 27, 2024 by C.A. Jacobs

Because I just reread The Black Gryphon and I don’t like leaving a series unfinished if I can help it, I just finished rereading The White Gryphon (fantasy, 399 pages) by Merceded Lackey and Larry Dixon.

“It has been ten years since the magical Cataclysm which destroyed the stronghold of the world’s most powerful Mage, killing Urtho, creator of the gryphons, and sending his forces into exile. It had taken urtho’s peoples one year of terrible travail crossing dangerous lands to find a sheltered haven, and nine hard years of building, but their city, called White Gryphon, is now a secure stronghold. Secure, at least, until the fleet of the mysterious Black Kings appears in their harbor, bringing envoys who inform the residents of White Gryphon that their newfound sanctruary lies on land claimed by this powerful kingdom. Desperate not to lose their hard-won home, Skandranon Rashkae, the Black Gryphon, along with his longtime friend, Amberdrake, agree to accompany the envoys back to the court of the Black Kings, hoping to negotiate an alliance. But once settled in this strange court, Skandranon and Amberdrake quickly become aware that this negotiation will not be an easy one. And when a high-ranking noble who opposes this alliance is found murdered – seemingly torn apart by gryphon’s talons – Skandranon and Amberdrake realize that they are up against unknown enemies who will stop at nothing, even the use of diabolical Blood Magic, to destroy White Gryphon.”

This book has a lot of very close, very deep, very uncomfortable looks inside the minds of very unhealthy characters. It’s a reminder that not everyone in the world, real or fictional, is a positive person who only has the best interests of others in mind. It’s a reminder that monsters do exist, and they usually have a pleasant face and do horrible things.

I think that’s one of the things I enjoy most about reading these books – the “good guys” do actually win and those human monsters who are true evil are not successful in their endeavors. But, boy howdy do they do a LOT of damage along the way.

I enjoyed my reread of this much more than The Black Gryphon and was a lot more invested in the characters and the overall situation, though you could tell this was a book written in the U.S. in the 1990s. Overall, I would say this is bumped up to a low three on my rating scale. I’m glad I own it and might actually reread it again in the future.

Lackey, Mercedes and Dixon, Larry. The White Gryphon. DAW Book Collectors, 1995.

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Movie Review: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Posted on February 24, 2024 by C.A. Jacobs

Continuing with my vintage movie streak, this weekend’s movie was Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

“It’s 1947 Hollywood and Eddie Valiant, a down-on-his-luck detective, is hired to find proof that Marvin Acme, gag factory mogul and owner of Toontown, is playing hanky-panky with femme fatale Jessica Rabbit, wife of Maroon Cartoon superstar, Roger Rabbit. When Acme is found murdered, all fingers point to Roger, and the sinister, power-hungry Judge Doom is on a mission to bring Roger to justice. Roger begs the Toon-hating Valiant to find the real evildoer and the plot thickens as Eddie uncovers scandal after scandal and realizes the very existence of Toontown is at stake!“

I had honestly forgotten how much fun this movie was. It starts out with a classic-looking cartoon with a cartoon rabbit in charge of babysitting a danger-prone baby after some cookies and then a real, human director shows up and yells at Roger for having cartoon tweety birds instead of stars when the refrigerator drops on his head. And then as Eddie is leaving “Toon Town”, a man with a saxophone is playing theme music from Fantasia to get the magic brooms to sweep up the mess.

And the battling pianos scene with Donald and Daffy Duck in the nightclub is one of my favorite musical pieces in all my movie watching throughout all the years.

There’s so many different references with so many cartoon cameos that this movie is just a visual treat. I think it’s also one of the only movies Disney and Warner Brothers ever agreed to do together.

Though, I will also say that for all this movie has a lot of fun, it’s also really, really dark. Like, using chemicals to murder cartoon characters? That red shoe scene is so hard to watch. What a sad, squeaky shoe. Eddie’s brother was killed by a toon and so he takes out his unhappiness on all the toons. And there’s also the concept of how dark the world was in 1947. And the really sad part is how Judge Doom’s vision of freeways, gas stations, and the future is actually what came to pass. And maybe a little bit about how it’s so hard to find things that make us all laugh these days, like the viewers in the cartoon movies laughed. I don’t know that I see very much uncontrollable laughter these days.

Overall, I have a lot of fond memories of this movie and it was still an enjoyable rewatch. It’s still a three on my rating scale and it made me happy to rewatch it.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Executive Producers Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Produced by Robert Watts and Frank Marshall, performances by Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Joanna Cassidy, Touchstone Pictures, 1988.

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Book Review: the Black Gryhon by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

Posted on February 23, 2024 by C.A. Jacobs

This month’s book club book was The Black Gryphon (fantasy, 460 pages) by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon.

“Skandranon Rashkae is everything a gryphon should be with gleaming ebony feathers, majestic wingspan, keen magesight, and a sharp intelligence, he is the fulfillment of all that the Mage of Silence, the human sorcerer called Urtho, intended to achieve when he created these magical beings to be his champions, the defenders of his realm – a verdant plain long coveted by the evil mage Ma’ar. And now, as Ma’ar is once again preparing to advance on Urtho’s Keep, this time with a huge force spearheaded by magical constructs of his own, Skandranon is sent to spy across enemy lines, cloaked in the protection of Urtho’s powerful Spell of Silence. As days pass and Skandranon doesn’t return, all in Urtho’s camp wait anxiously. But there is one among them for whom the possible loss of this great bird will be more than just a major military defeat. Amberdrake – a Healer of body, mind and spirit whose talents are as essential to the army as those of any general – waits on the landing strip with anguish in his heart. For Amberdrake has come to value the vain, cocksure, and brave Skandranon as his closet friend and comrade, and now he fears that this prince of gryphons will never return.”

Probably one of the most interesting things about this book is that the back of the book summary is actually the story before you start reading at the beginning. This summary doesn’t mention at all what happens in the book itself and I think this is the only time I can think of where reading the back of the book actually helped fill in a lot of gaps with the beginning of the book, as it was a little bit like the text before the Star Wars movies. So if you read the book without reading the back, it might feel like you were missing parts of the story and background in the beginning (which you were).

While I have read this book, and the whole trilogy, before, it’s been well over at least one decade if not more since I read them. I do reread the Heralds of Valdemar books frequently (about once a year) but these books just didn’t catch my desire to reread them so often. Maybe it’s the lack of women in this story or other relatable characters for me? Or maybe because everyone winds up in het relationships? I don’t know. There aren’t zero women in this story, just the two who show up as love interests for the main characters of Shandranon (Zhaneel) and Amberdrake (Winterhart), and one who is already attached to another man in the book (Cinnabar with Tamsin).

What do I mean when I say these women don’t exist except to become partners for the main male characters?

Zhaneel is an amazing character in general. She’s suffering from vast amounts of abuse in her military unit and even outside her military unit, as the gryphons pick on her for being smaller and having different foreclaws that are more like hands. (I guess that just goes to show you that prejudice knows no species boundaries). But even as she hates herself for being different than the other gryphons, she finds a way to use her smaller size and speed to her advantage, and then even goes so far to set up her own obstacle course in order to specifically train herself to be better at tasks she is actually designed for. But she doesn’t start accepting her individual differences until she comes to the attention of Skandranon, who immediately lusts after her, and she crushes on him but doesn’t want him to know it. So while she does all this training to be able to do more at war, she also has the side goal of attracting Skandranon’s attention.

Winterhart starts out in a very abusive relationship and it’s very positive to show what that actually looks like and how hard abusive relationships are to leave. I did appreciate how both Amberdrake and Winterhart acknowledge that starting a relationship in the middle of deeply traumatic emotional abuse from another person is not healthy and how they worked to communicate effectively. But while Winterhart also has a fantastic character arc, she’s still really only there to become a main love interest for Amberdrake.

One of the things that came up in discussion at book club was how accurate this portrayal of military life, especially a military in active war, truly is. It acknowledges civilians in the military camp, and it acknowledges that a major military involved in a ground war isn’t just soldiers. There’s family members, healers, supply personnel, and trading of goods or services. Of particular note was Amberdrake’s role as a Healer of not just the body, but of the mind and soul, as well. It would be amazing if that kind of care for people in general, not just military personnel, was a real thing that was actually available.

Overall, this book is a high two on my rating scale. It’s not one of my favorites and it was okay to read, but it just didn’t grip me as well as some other books. I’m happy I own it for reference purposes with the rest of the Valdemar books.

Lackey, Mercedes and Dixon, Larry. The Black Gryphon. DAW Books, 1994.

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Book Review: The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

Posted on February 20, 2024 by C.A. Jacobs

The second graphic novel I was recently sent by a friend was The Girl From the Sea (graphic novel, 256 pages) by Molly Knox Ostertag.

“Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can’t wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She’s desperate to finish high school and get as far away as possible from her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and her group of best friends – who don’t actually know Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan’s biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss girls. Then one night, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie. Suddenly, life on the island doesn’t seem so stifling anymore. But Keltie has some secrets of her own. And as the girls start to fall in love, everything they’ve been hiding will find its way to the surface, whether Morgan is ready or not.”

I really enjoyed this story. The artwork was clear and made the story easy to follow and the story was a relatable to anyone who grew up or lives in a very small community. It’s interesting to me how many stories like this are out there because it feels a lot to me like none of us really ever feel comfortable being who we are, where we are. This is pretty much true for everyone, I think. We all have this mentality that if we can just get away from the people who know us and the environment we live in that we can make all these drastic changes to who /we/ are and how /we/ interact with the world.

This book shows a lot of growth in regards to how we each have to be responsible for making the changes in ourselves in order to create the dream world we want to live in. Sure, it’s intimidating and scary for each of us to change ourselves, and therefore how the outside world views us, but if you have this grand dream of how different life could be somewhere else, it might not be your location you need to focus on changing.

When the book ends and both Morgan and Keltie have seven more years before they can interact again, you see Morgan taking her life into her own hands and maybe having some other relationships or at least more-than-friends interactions with girls she finds attractive. I think this is actually a really healthy thing for Morgan, as it allows her to just exist without the pressure of “waiting for the perfect one”, as is obsessed about in our modern western-style society. I’m sure there are people out there who are upset that Morgan isn’t going to spend the next seven years pining over her selkie-love, but I think the way this story ends shows more of a healthy relationship. Seven years is a really long time and it’s healthy to allow yourself to actually feel things and express them in ways that make sense to you.

Overall, this book is easily a high three on my rating scale. I’m glad I read it and own a copy of it now and I’m positive I will reread it again in the future.

Ostertag, Molly Knox. The Girl From the Sea. Scholastic Graphix, 2021.

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Movie Review: Back to the Future Part III

Posted on February 17, 2024 by C.A. Jacobs

The last movie in my rewatch of the Back to the Future movies was Back to the Future Part III.

“Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly learns about the death of Doc Brown in 1885 and must travel back in time to save him. With no fuel readily available for the DeLorean, the two must figure how to escape the Old West before Emmett is murdered.”

I’m really impressed with Marty’s character development throughout this series. He’s not really a large, muscular person and so it seems a quite frequently that he’s doing everything he can to not wind up like his father in the first movie before he saves Lorraine at the dance. Before they meddle with time, George McFly is often a victim of bullying by Bif, even once they’re out of high school and adults. I think Marty doesn’t like how he sees his dad get pushed around so frequently and that’s kind of what pushes him to be so upset when people call him a chicken.

This also goes with how much peer pressure there used to be about being tough and how other people’s perceptions of you should shape how you carry yourself instead of just allowing people to be themselves. Marty’s character journey through all three movies shows him learning to take care of what’s important and to think things through instead of just falling for bully bait.

One of the things that amused me the most was when Marty goes back into the old west and he’s wearing the pink cowboy outfit and how everyone in the past thought his outfit was ridiculous. I couldn’t help thinking about Doc Holiday’s comments from Wynonna Earp season 1 where he’s given the Stone Witch’s car and he says the pink color of it is the only thing it has going for it because it’s strong and masculine and how women were always delicate and dainty in blue.

One of the weirdest things we’ve all done is to continuously push narratives about how the past lacked color or that everything was drab, boring colors. This applies to clothing, statues, buildings, and even castles. Now, I’m not a historian or fabric arts person or anything like that, but I see things on the internet about architectural wonders around the world and how vibrant, beautiful, and sometimes even very old, some buildings throughout the world are.

This was a really fun movie and I’m glad that I have and am able to rewatch the entire trilogy. This movie is going to stay at a three on my rating scale. It’s a great movie to watch every now and again.

Back to the Future Part III. Directed by Robert Zemleckis, Executive Producers Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall, Produced by Bob Gale and Neil Canton, performances by Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Universal Studios, 1990.

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Book Review: The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith

Posted on February 16, 2024 by C.A. Jacobs

A friend sent me some graphic novels and so that’s what I’ve been reading! The first one sent to me was The Deep & Dark Blue (graphic novel, 256 pages) by Niki Smith.

“After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson fee to stay alive and assume new identities, Hanna and Grayce. Desperation and chance lead them to the Communion of Blue, an order of magical women who spin the threads of reality to their will. As the twins learn more about the Communion, and themselves, they being to hatch a plan to avenge their family and retake their royal home. While Hawke wants to return to his old life, Grayce struggles to keep the threads of their new life from unraveling and realizes she wants to stay in the one place that will allow her to finally live as a girl.”

This is a really good story with great artwork. Hawke and Grayce are both aptly named, as they both display the behavior of their namesakes. Hawke is definitely a stereotypical, restless, royal young man who sees immediate action and blurting out whatever he’s thinking, whenever he thinks it as appropriate behavior. And Grayce is just like her name suggests, careful, considerate, and deliberate.

The story moves very quickly and there is no part extra anything anywhere in this story. What do I mean by that? I mean that everything moves the story and the characters forward at breakneck speed, which is good. This was a really quick read for me and I really did enjoy it.

I think if I was to change anything about this book, I would add page numbers. It’s printed on thick, glossy paper, which helps the stunning visuals and artwork, but also made it difficult for me to tell if I had turned to the correct page.

Overall, I enjoyed this book and rate it as a three on my rating scale. I’m glad I own a copy and I’m sure I will read it again at some point in the future.

Smith, Niki. The Deep and Dark Blue. Hatchette Book Group, Inc., 2020.

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Book Review: Wings of Fire: the Winglet Quartet by Tui T. Sutherland

Posted on February 14, 2024 by C.A. Jacobs

After the other series I just finished, I needed something a little lighter, so I read Wings of Fire: the Winglet Quartet (young adult fantasy, 171 pages) by Tui T. Sutherland.

“Fiercetooth, a NightWing obsessed with what could have – and should have – been. Deathbringer, desperate to prove himself as the next great NightWing assassin. Six-Claws, a loyal SandWing, who will soon find that loyalty comes with a prince. Foeslayer the NightWing, a dragon-in-love turned kidnapper, and Prince Arctic of the IceWings, a runaway turned captive. In these four short stories, dig deeper into the world of Pyrrhia to discover what really happened.”

This isn’t really going to be much of a review, as this is more a record of a book I read, since this characters interact with the main characters from the other series but aren’t really main characters of their own. All four of these stories were very short, quick reads and definitely added a lot more depth to the Wings of Fire books I’ve read and reviewed so far.

I think my favorite of these short stories was definitely Deathbringer (or Murderbasket, depending on your translation 😉 ), as that’s one of the characters I enjoy the most. Though, his story was definitely not a happy one.

Overall, I’d say this book is a low three or a high two on my rating scale. They’re really good filler material and they do provide a lot of depth, but I don’t really feel the need to reread them as often as I do the other books in the series. So while I’m glad I read it and I’m glad I own it, it’s really just good filler 🙂

Sutherland, Tui T. Wings of Fire: the Winglet Quartet. Scholastic Press, 2012.

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Movie Review: Back to the Future Part II

Posted on February 10, 2024 by C.A. Jacobs

Continuing with my trend of watching movies from the 1980s, today’s movie was Back to the Future: Part II.

“After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985 … without interfering with his first trip.”

The movie starts with a look at 21 October 2015. In 1989 when this movie was made, thirty years in the future looked like we would have flying cars, hoverboards, instant pizza, an instant judicial system with no lawyers, self-tying shoelaces, and auto-fitting clothes.

(As it’s now 2024, we definitely didn’t get any of the cool toys they promised us).

Marty and Doc Brown succeed in fixing the future from 2015 but then go back into the nightmare 1985, a nightmare 1985 that feels closer and closer to our real-world potential reality with every major election in the United States these days, starting from (oddly) 2016.

Anyway. I do like how the second movie did all that research to make the first movie and this one play so well together and how they give hints for the third movie throughout this one. It’s a really well-done and creative movie.

Overall, this movie is a high two on my rating scale. I’m glad I bought the 25th anniversary box collection but I don’t need to rewatch this too frequently, especially how horribly the alternate 1985 is and how it reminds me of the potential future if certain people continue to be worshiped as false idols and allowed in positions of power.

Back to the Future: Part II. Directed by Robert Zemleckis, Executive Producers Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall, Produced by Bob Gale and Neil Canton, performances by Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Thomas F. Wilson, Universal Studios, 1989.

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Book Review: The Last Hero by Linden A. Lewis

Posted on February 7, 2024 by C.A. Jacobs

The final book in the First Sister trilogy was The Last Hero (science fiction, 616 pages) by Linden A. Lewis.

“Astrid is finally free of the Sisterhood, yet her name carries notoriety. She’s called the Unchained by those she’s inspired and the Heretic by those who want her voiceless once more. Now Astrid uses her knowledge of the Sisterhood’s inner workings against them, aiding the moonborn in raids against abbeys and cathedrals, all the while exploring the mysteries of her forgotten past. The Sisterhood, however, thrives under the newly appointed Mother Lilian I, who’s engaged in high-stakes politics among the Warlords and the Aunts to rebuild the Sisterhood in her own image. But the evil of the Sisterhood can’t be purged with anything less than fire … Meanwhile, Hiro val Akira is a rebel without an army, a Dagger without a Rapier. As protests rock the streets of Cytherea, Hiro moves in the shadows, driven by grief and vengeance, as they hunt the man responsible for all their pain: their father. Transformed by the Genekey virus, Luce navigates the growing schism within the Asters on Ceres. Hurting in her new body, she works to bridge two worlds seemingly intent on mutual destruction – all while mourning her fallen brother, though Lito sol Lucius’s memory may ultimately live on. Yet Souji val Akira sits in judgment on them all, plotting the future for all humanity, and running out of time before war erupts between the Icarii and Geans. But can even the greatest human intellect outwit the Synthetics?”

THIS IS NOT A SPOILER FREE REVIEW

If you’ve read my past two reviews for The First Sister and The Second Rebel, you might remember that I was uncertain how I wanted to discuss or rate these books because of how dark, violent, and hopeless the first two books were for me, and also because I wanted to reserve overarching judgment for once I’d finished the entire series.

I’m grateful to report the third book addresses pretty much all of my concerns and while things in the story do get so, so much worse, the characters have learned and grown because of their experiences. Many even learn to trust each other, what sacrifice truly means, and how even the best of intentions can be twisted with time, power, and money.

I didn’t mention this in my review of The Second Rebel because it was pretty much one of the worst things a person could go through, but Luce is definitely my favorite character in the series. Though what happens to her is downright horrifying. A good portion of The Second Rebel showcased Luce’s artistic abilities and when she volunteers to be the test subject for the Genekey virus and then her body is broken, I was actually pained at her loss of color vision. I’ve done some coloring work on my own for my own art projects and I showed those projects to someone with very limited color vision and they couldn’t see any of the patterns or colors. I haven’t actually worked on coloring anything since. So taking away an artist’s ability to see the world around them is a cruel thing.

However, Luce doesn’t allow the choices she made as a sacrifice for the greater good to make her the cruel person Sorrel or Ofiera. She continues to allow herself to be a bridge to save as many lives as she can. While Sorrel gains power and uses that power for genocide and mass attacks, Luce offers herself, first to the Genekey virus, and then to the synthetics, in order to truly offer everything living a chance at life and self-determination. She never backs down from doing what’s actually right for everyone, and she doesn’t strut around talking about her sacrifices or what sacrifice truly means like Sorrel does. She acknowledges and accepts her own choices and her new physical limitations. The Asters help her by making her that absolutely awesome glow-in-the-dark cane and a gravchair, then they make sure she has time and assistance to get where they need her to go, AND! they include their disabled folks in their evacuation plans.

No character in this series has an easy journey, but it’s because everything happens to all of them that they are each able to contribute to showing how humans are selfless and kind and capable of change – capable of learning and growing and doing better. Honestly, the end exchange with the Synthetics is fantastic because it talks about how we are all flawed and have made so many mistakes and that what we really need to move forward is a common goal, not a common enemy.

There’s a lot about this book particular that holds up a mirror to our own modern world. Those in power are abusive and destructive, even if they might have started on their path with the best of intentions, but accepting people as they are, helping each other however we can, and learning love and trust can make the world a much better place.

Overall, I think this book brings the series up to a solid three on my rating scale. While the third book is a very good book, I don’t know that I can get through the first two books’ darkness again in order to reread the series.

Lewis, Linden. The Last Hero. Skybound Books, 2021.

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