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Judge's Commentary Sheet

On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 meaning "poor" and 5 meaning "excellent,"
please evaluate the following:

Structure and organization: 5
Grammar: 5
Cover design: 4+

Judge's commentary:

  1. What did you like best about this book? Pai has a great writing
    style, and her first and last chapters made me teary. The last line
    is so lofty it banged around in my head for a day. I'd like to read
    some fiction by this author.
  2. How can the author improve this book? She occasionally injects
    a bit too much small talk or material that is specific to her family,
    but I would submit this book to a royalty publisher.
My Other Body is named first place winner, Life Stories
Division, for the Writer's Digest 2006 International
Self-Published Book Competition
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My Other Body: a memoir of love, fat, life, and death
by Ann Pai