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  <title><![CDATA[Od Magic]]></title>
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  <default_description>Brenden Vetch has a gift that connects him to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. Receiving a personal invitation from the wizard Od to become a gardener for her school in the great city of Kelior, he finds a home among every potential wizard who must be trained to serve the Kingdom of Numis. But unknown to the reigning monarchy is the power possessed by the school's new gardener-a power that even Brenden isn't fully aware of, and which is the true reason Od recruited him.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Od Magic</original_title>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[McKillip is a pleasure to read. She writes these little books that are more like fairy tales than they are anything else. They are finely drawn, beautifully detailed, perfect stories that make you think of the beautiful miniatures of another era. She borrows themes from old fairy tales and weaves th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36656770">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think the best thing about this book was the cover art…and that is where the interest ended for me. I am a little surprised that this book got so much praise from other readers because I actually found myself drifting off and thinking of other things repetitively while reading this book. It was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26169604">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Centuries ago, the mysterious giantess Odd founded a school of magic in the heart of the king’s city. Wizards learn there, magic ruled and regulated by the state. And once in a while Odd shows herself again, sending someone of her choosing down to the school as she does Brenden, the wild and untra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41108026">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 10 17:08:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[      I can see all the pieces she created--a sorrowful young man from the country who listens to plants and is asked by the giantess wizard Od to be the gardener at her school, the kingdom of Numis where the school and its wizards are limited in their study by the needs and strictures of the king, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70773685">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63214551">
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Miryam]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 12 19:31:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this book, and I loved it!  It is prose that reads like poetry, something that current novels are definitely missing much of the time.  McKillip's writing did take longer to read because of her syntax, which is unique, but the experience was well worth the time.  The most fascinating...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63214551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32289644">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book about seeing past the end of your nose and that you can not define the world by what you want to believe is real.  If you struggle to make yourself heard, you will find sympathy in this book.]]></body>
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    <review id="71070171">
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book; not her best.  I'll forgive her for cribbing a quarter of it from <em>Harpist In the Wind</em>, even though she didn't turn himself into a fish when she was turning him into stuff.  (I always liked the fish thing.)  It's quite good up till the last chapter, which reads like she was up against a ve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71070171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44162526">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was in the mood for something nice, and I'd been saving this for about a year, so it seemed as good a time as any. It's not the most plot-driven of McKillip's works by a long chalk – there isn't even really an antagonist; people are foolish, blinkered, misguided, but not actually <em>bad</em> – but it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44162526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29572932">
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    <body><![CDATA[See my review at:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue189/od_magic_rev.html" title="http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue189/od_magic_rev.html">http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue1...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77063375">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ALPHABET OF THORN touched me like no book ever has before. So obviously, once I finished I dashed to the school library to find something--anything--else by P.A. McKillip. I picked up OD MAGIC, and was utterly enchanted by the beginning. Then came the middle: a meandering desert of the same few char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77063375">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50178665">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story begins with a gardener arriving at a school for wizards, and soon, other colorful characters are added to the story: an ancient, white-haired giant with animals nesting on her body; a street magician and his daughter, traveling with wagons of colorful performers; a princess learning the &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50178665">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55903815">
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  <read_at>Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 13 02:37:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been years since I read a fantasy novel.  This one was superb! I loved the pace of the story-there was not that typical rush to tie up all the loose ends in the last 10 pages.  It's very well written and a joy to read-I could not put it down until it was finished. I look forward to reading more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55903815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47462257">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so good, I read it all in one night. I told some of my coworkers that this is better than Neil Gaiman, but they looked at me like I was insane. So on my shelf-talker for the book, I said that if you liked Stardust, you'll love this book. This book won the World Fantasy Award and it tota...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47462257">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27789933">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[someone who loves magic]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Posie Gets Cozy]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[7/19 Still reading...  Haven't read much fantasy, so I don't know if this book is typical of the genre or not.  But, I sure am enjoying it so far.  I love all the descriptions of place and of magic.  I love the odd character Od, and all the other myriad characters. The author tells you just enough t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27789933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43484540">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, loving this book............I did love this book. She is a marvelous writer. I would like to see a sequel to this book. I am going on a binge reading books by this author. I love books about magic. Perhaps, I am only going to read books with magic in them. I seem to be well on my way.]]></body>
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    <review id="73242138">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love McKillip, but somehow I missed this one when it came out.  I am always amazed by her lyric style.  She writes about magic as if it is as normal as eating or sleeping.  I'm immersed in visions of mist when I read her work, and this one is no exception.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As always with a McKillip book, I finished this one with a sense of wonder at the world and its characters. I found that this particular book brought me into the world more than some do--sometimes her books push me away a little bit.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 19 16:48:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the way McKillip wove the theme of this book into the plot.  It is one of the most artfully delivered book with a theme I've read in some time.  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25.Patricia_A_McKillip" title="Patricia A. McKillip">Patricia A. McKillip</a> is quickly becoming one of my favorites. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 18 15:09:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good book..have to agree with other reviewers about the ending..but what I did like about the ending is she didn't tie it up in a little bow..I thought I'd guessed the ending and was wrong so to me thats a good book.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 14:10:22 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 23 06:40:26 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is an almost leisurely pace to the book.  The descriptions are wonderful, but at times the plot feels a little too slow.  In some ways, I think the plot would've worked better as a poem than as a novel, if that makes sense.]]></body>
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