William George Ferguson wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:45:16 -0500, Konrad Gaertner
<kgaertner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
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> >Aaron Bergman wrote:
> >>
> >> _Fire Study_, Maria V. Snyder
> >>
> >> This series, starting with the amicable _Poison Study_ and
forgettable
> >> _Magic Study_ seems to have moved to large trim paperback in the
romance
> >> section of the bookstore. This book was an improvement on _Magic
Study_,
> >> but there's just not much here -- the bad people are bad, the good
> >> people are good, and there's not much else going on. Whatever
attracted
> >> me to _Poison Study_ has not stayed with this series.
> >
> >_Poison_ seemed to at least try to be a little bit original, which
> >was abandoned in _Magic_. Also, the latter focused on the heroine
> >being unable to do any magic directly, and yet I remember her doing
> >so in the first book. On the plus side, I flipped through _Fire_
> >in a bookstore, and it seems this publisher is changing "bo" to
> >"staff", which is a big improvement over "bow".
>
> See, I assumed it was a 'real' bow staff, that is, an unstrung bowstave.
> Looking around on the net, I see that people have munged together bow
staff
> and bo staff pretty much completely, although a bo staff (or,
translating
> it to English, a 'staff staff') was never, as far as I know, used to
shoot
> arrows. In Poison Study, I'm pretty sure it was mentioned that Yelena
> could, in fact, shoot arrows with her bow staff.
No, arrows were only mentioned when other characters had crossbows;
Yelena always used her "bow" in melee.
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