{"id":55,"date":"2009-12-07T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=55"},"modified":"2012-02-27T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:21:51","slug":"brown-girl-in-the-ring-the-caves-of-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Brown Girl in the Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Brown Girl in the Ring<\/em> by Nalo Hopkinson<\/h3>\n<p>Thirteen people attended this meeting at the North Village  library. Our topic was <em>Brown Girl in the  Ring,<\/em> a story of Caribbean magic in postapocalyptic Toronto. Three of us  had  read Hopkinson before. All of us started this book, and five finished  it.<\/p>\n<p>We were pleased to see the Caribbean magic base come into   urban fantasy. This<!--more--> type of magic is rarely depicted in sf, and  generally it\u2019s handled incorrectly. Hopkinson seems to write with real  understanding.<\/p>\n<p>We thought this book was an interesting mix of sf,  fantasy,  and horror. Many of us don\u2019t like horror, but Hopkinson\u2019s  writing kept us  interested. One person said the book was \u201creally  creepy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Several of us appreciated how well this book was written,   particularly for a first novel.\u00a0 We  appreciated the book\u2019s complex  structure and liked how the author wove all the  plot threads together.  One reader found the writing so engrossing that it made  her late to  work once.<\/p>\n<p>We liked the protagonist, Ti-Jeanne, and felt that several   of the supporting characters were well fleshed-out. The women in our  group  thought Ti-Jeanne\u2019s infatuation with a \u201cbad boy\u201d seemed all too  realistic. Everyone\u2019s  favorite character seemed to be the protagonist\u2019s  grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>One person commented that this book was a \u201cbreath of fresh   air.\u201d\u00a0 He felt this was a novel of female  empowerment and an  uplifting read.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting, several of us had dinner at Conan\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson Thirteen people attended this meeting at the North Village library. Our topic was Brown Girl in the Ring, a story of Caribbean magic in postapocalyptic Toronto. Three of us had read Hopkinson before. All of us started this book, and five finished it. We were pleased to [&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-55","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\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}