I had to share this with everyone, and thought it deserved email of the month! Many thanks for writing Yiyi.

Kate Constable

[From Yiyi in the UK, an Singer of all Songs fan]

I"I have to say that I loved the all the books. When I read The Singer of all Songs I loved it and I wondered why there was a number 1 on the side of the book. I hoped there would be more of them. Then, this year, my school library got the other two books and when I saw them I literally leaped for joy. There was also some squealing but you don't know that because it was a tad embarrassing.

I checked out The Waterless Sea without a second thought because I was sure it would be just as good or better than the first book. It was great and I got so excited when [deleted for plot spoilage]. When [deleted], I would have danced and sung and jumped like I always do when I'm that happy if not for the fact that it was the middle of the night and I was supposed to be sleeping. NOT reading with a dim light. I had to wait for dawn to come to express my happiness. My mum thought I was crazy and jumping for no reason. I sped through the book in a day and the next day I checked out The Tenth Power.

I was ecstatic to hear that [deleted]... And before that, when Darrow said [deleted], I was floating on the moon and in a flash zoomed to the sun and touched it, and in another second crossed the asteroid belt and flew with a shooting star and then went up to a star and put it in my pajama pocket as I gracefully rode a cloud back home. I was too happy to describe.

I absolutely loved the trilogy and its ending. Yet, no matter how much I liked the story, what I liked most was how it got me thinking about the way we treat the earth as humans. I thought of how Halasaa feels when he senses the pain of the earth, especially in Merithuros. I started to think on how he would feel if he saw how our world is.

I have begun to research on different ways people are saving the wold little by little and bit by bit and have begun to give my share of work. I have begun to turn off any unnecessary lights, begun to take shorter showers, and, hardest yet, I have begun to convince my father to buy more earth-friendly lightbulbs. See, those are more expensive and my father is very strict about saving money. Also, I am trying to convince my mother to buy earth-friendly everyday household products, like laundry detergent, and am trying to convince her to call the garbage disposal people to ask if they could bring recycling bins. It's not much for now, but I know a little change can go a long way.

I don't know if you ever intended for your readers to interpret Halasaa's suffering for the land in this way, but I thank you. I feel like I am doing the world much good. I feel very happy with myself. Once again, thank you.

Yiy