{"id":677,"date":"2003-01-06T23:07:13","date_gmt":"2003-01-06T23:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=677"},"modified":"2003-01-06T23:07:13","modified_gmt":"2003-01-06T23:07:13","slug":"hot-time-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2003\/01\/hot-time-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot time in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished up The Onion Girl<\/i>, by Charles de Lint<\/a> today, one of several books he’s set in the fictional locale of Newford<\/a>. Interesting stuff, and the first thing I’ve ever read by de Lint (I think — certainly the first novel-length thing). Lots of good characters. Onion Girl<\/i> is one of the later books in the Newford series, so there is a sense of having walked into an ongoing conversation between people who have all known each other for about twenty years, but it was still enjoyable.
\nDe Lint is obviously comfortable writing his characters and has known them all for a good long time — so much so that a book like Onion Girl<\/i>, which is much less about the story and much more about exploring his characters in painstaking depth, doesn’t bother him or his readers much. In some ways it reminded me of an excerpt from a (or any) long-running Amber campaign that you read one character diary from — obviously fascinating to the involved participants, but less so to those who don’t know what exactly’s going on.
\nStill, brimming with lots of neat ideas, good prose, and lots of small feisty women with unkempt hair and commitment issues. I’ll be happy to find and read more of his stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished up The Onion Girl, by Charles de Lint today, one of several books he’s set in the fictional locale of Newford. Interesting stuff, and the first thing I’ve ever read by de Lint (I think — certainly the first novel-length thing). Lots of good characters. Onion Girl is one of the later books … <\/p>\n

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