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This was a good book. Very much written for kids. But still smart, and well made. If you can read it as your kid self, you can get much out of it. Or just learn where kids are now.

The characters are well done. Even some of the more ancillary ones. It does a good job of presenting annoying characters. Then humanizing them. It doesnt do this by...

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Scott reviewed All the Ways to Go by Jessie Janowitz

Jessie Janowitz: All the Ways to Go (2024, Sourcebooks, Incorporated)

Milo Bloom, chess prodigy, has a secret: he doesn't want to play chess anymore. If …

Character complexity, over game complexity

4 stars

This was a good book. Very much written for kids. But still smart, and well made. If you can read it as your kid self, you can get much out of it. Or just learn where kids are now.

The characters are well done. Even some of the more ancillary ones. It does a good job of presenting annoying characters. Then humanizing them. It doesnt do this by striping away the annoying features, but reminding us they are a person behind the annoying.

I think this does a pretty good job of having #GoGame in a story. It doesnt bog the reader down in on and on lessons of how the game works. Even the possibly best player in it tryies to avoid teaching. But the book does give tid bits of the game one might find interesting. As many of the characters find something they like in it.

It …

This was a good book. Very much written for kids. But still smart, and well made. If you can read it as your kid self, you can get much out of it. Or just learn where kids are now.

The characters are well done. Even some of the more ancillary ones. It does a good job of presenting annoying characters. Then humanizing them. It doesnt do this by striping away the annoying features, but reminding us they are a person behind the annoying.

I think this does a pretty good job of having #GoGame in a story. It doesnt bog the reader down in on and on lessons of how the game works. Even the possibly best player in it tryies to avoid teaching. But the book does give tid bits of the game one might find interesting. As many of the characters find something they like in it.

It also makes Milo's journey in Go feel organic. It didnt feel like he plays the game because that is the premise of the book. Just like Hikaru No Go, this book is about the characters more than it is about the game and all its complexity. It is about the character's complexity. The game is a tool to finding it. And not the only one.

It had a good narrative flow. I enjoyed it.

Scott started reading All the Ways to Go by Jessie Janowitz

Milo Bloom, chess prodigy, has a secret: he doesn't want to play chess anymore. If …

This is very much meant for a kid audience, but it's not flimsy. If you can put yourself back to your 12yo self, and can adjust for technological inflation, I think this can be enjoyed. But these kids act like 12yo's. They get frustrated by things adults might not bat an eye at. It's still early chapters on it. But it's going ok. No #GoGame yet tho. #Bookstodon #Books #Baduk @Bookstodon@a.gup.pe

Scott wants to read All the Ways to Go by Jessie Janowitz

Milo Bloom, chess prodigy, has a secret: he doesn't want to play chess anymore. If …

I heard of this from the American Go Association. So I wanted to give it a try. Usually for spreading the word about Go. Been a while since I finished #HikaruNoGo. So down for another story about people playing it. #Books #Bookstodon #Strategy #GoGame #Baduk #AGA