{"id":1234,"date":"1997-05-06T15:11:50","date_gmt":"1997-05-06T15:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2012-04-25T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T15:20:08","slug":"the-silent-strength-of-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"The Silent Strength of Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Silent Strength of Stones<\/em> by Nina             Kiriki Hoffman<\/h3>\n<p>Seven of us gathered at the FACT Office: Wes Dunn,             Cyndi Dunn, Debbie Hodgkinson, Karen Meschke, Jeff             Rupley, Lori Wolf, and A. T. Campbell. The novel is a             contemporary coming-of-age fantasy story set in a             summer resort in Oregon. We all found the prose style             readable and easily finished the book.<\/p>\n<p>This book is unusual for a current fantasy novel. It&#8217;s             fairly short, it doesn&#8217;t seem to be part of a series,             the rural Oregon setting is refreshing, and it doesn&#8217;t             contain a quest. We liked the &#8220;boy meets girl, boy             meets wolf&#8221; story. The writing<!--more--> style seemed aimed at a             Young Adult readership, but it was fine for grownups             too.<\/p>\n<p>Characterization was not the book&#8217;s strong point. Most             adults in the book were simply forces to make our             hero&#8217;s life miserable, although a couple of them             suddenly became benevolent when convenient for the             plot. We found the protagonist&#8217;s love interest to be             shallow and boring. We were also disappointed at the             wimpiness of the main character, whose most assertive             actions were adopting a pet and taking a nap.<\/p>\n<p>The world portrayed in the novel was more interesting             than the characters. We particularly liked the unusual             system of magic, and would like to learn more about it.             Overall we found the book had a lot to like.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Silent Strength of Stones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman Seven of us gathered at the FACT Office: Wes Dunn, Cyndi Dunn, Debbie Hodgkinson, Karen Meschke, Jeff Rupley, Lori Wolf, and A. T. Campbell. The novel is a contemporary coming-of-age fantasy story set in a summer resort in Oregon. We all found the prose style readable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}