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Book review: Moving Target

1. What was difficult from having so many characters in different locations in Moving Target?

She found it difficult to figure out who was on what time zones, what the time was, and how long it would take to get from one place to the other.

2. There are two mysteries in the book. Who is the second one about?

It’s about a computer-nerd-type boy who has run afoul of the law and who is almost murdered in the first few pages of the book.

3. How much can she tell us about the last book she describes?

Only that it opens with someone trying to murder someone in Bemidji, Minnesota. That’s as much as she can tell about it. The book is “so far unnamed”, i.e. she still hasn’t got a title for it.

What are you reading?

1. The book she's reading

a) is based on a musical  (NO: it’s the book the musical is based on. In other words, the musical is based on the book)

b) is hard to read from cover to cover (from beginning to end) (NO: it’s a long book, she says “she’s making her way through all twelve hundred pages of [it]”, but she doesn’t mention it’s hard to read)

c) is not an adaptation. (YES: it’s unabridged)

2. As she reads the book

a) she likes to listen to the songs from the musical (NO: she listens to the songs in her head as she’s reading it, and there’s no mention as to whether she likes this fact or not)

b) she realizes why it's considered such a great book (YES: she says the book “is worthy of its status as one of the great masterpieces of Western literature”)

c) she thinks fans of the musical should read it early in their lives (NO: she says it’s about time she read it, being such a great fan of the musical. No mention as to whether all fans should do the same)