{"id":185,"date":"2009-06-16T02:51:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T02:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=185"},"modified":"2012-02-27T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:21:51","slug":"territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Territory <\/em>by Emma Bull<\/h3>\n

We had thirteen readers at this meeting held at the Milwood Library, including one first-time attendee. Our topic was Territory<\/em> by Emma Bull, a fantasy Western set in Tombstone, Arizona that features Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. Five of us had read Emma Bull\u2019s work before. All of us started Territory<\/em>, ten finished it, and the rest planned to finish.<\/p>\n

One reader thoroughly enjoyed the book. She said that she doesn\u2019t normally read Westerns, but she read this book because she likes Emma Bull. She thought the concept of magic in the Old West had not been overdone. She liked the horse content, and felt the scene of breaking a horse was important in character development. She liked Mildred the reporter and the interplay with her coworkers.<\/p>\n

Another felt this was the best book we\u2019d read in a long time. He liked reading about printing and typesetting. The curse in this book was the best example he could remember ever reading.\u00a0 His only disappointment was that the book ended abruptly, clearly calling for a sequel.<\/p>\n

This led to another member speculating that the abrupt ending meant that this starting off as one book. He felt that there was not nearly enough payoff at the end. He noted that a major trope of the book is a character finding his or her talent.<\/p>\n

One reader consulted Wikipedia while reading the book and was surprised how much of the story tracked with history. She enjoyed the scenes of Tombstone\u2019s Chinatown. Some called this book a \u201csecret history\u201d for how it plays with our expectations of the historical characters.<\/p>\n

Other elements that people liked were the Earth magic and the quilting scenes.<\/p>\n

Several people complained about this book\u2019s lack of action, particularly for a Western. So much of the interesting stuff happens offstage that one reader compared it to a Greek play. Another reader called it a \u201ccozy Western\u201d.<\/p>\n

We liked the author\u2019s writing. Her prose style was clear and effective, and the storytelling \u00a0did a good job planting bits and pieces to set up the story.<\/p>\n

Overall we liked this book a great deal. After the meeting, many of us had a nice dinner at Fuddrucker\u2019s.<\/p>\n

—A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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