Status Updates From Brown Girl in the Ring

Man, I really dislike Ti-Jeanne

Oops

Fuck Tony

A complex story of family, magic, hate, and love. Rather uncomfortable at times but a great read.

Liking it so far.

I'm not too keen on this, but I really like connecting with the settings of this book, as it takes place in Toronto, and can imagine the whole thing happening. I will continue reading this book next semester since I have to read it for my Young Adult Lit course.

Amusing typo: "manouevring". Maybe you can make something about tying knots out of it. C'est une manoeuvre.

*looks at number of books on currently reading list*
Yes, I have a problem... this is why library bans are awesome and exist.

:<

Enjoying this one so far! :D

This whole ghost-thing is very intriguing.

Sorry for leaving this book untouched for so long. Turns out I'm not as good at reading two books as I'd hoped. Amyway. This book reads like a breeze, which is delightful.

Since Tigana is quite a thick book to carry with me on the subway/the train, I need another book to read when I'm heading somewhere, which is often. So I've started to read this book, since I'm going to meet the author in September.

And so far... wow, a really intruiging opening.

I am loving this. The dialogue is magical.

Rain pelted down like boulders. The lightning cracked fissures into the tower's structure, and water began to leak in, buckets of it. The water traced forms along the wall, and two majestic Black women stepped out from its current: graceful Oshun and beautiful Emanjah, water goddesses both, anger terrible on their unearthly faces.

Mami took Ti-Jeanne and Tony into the kitchen, where she filled a basket with all kinds of odd things: three bunches of dried herbs; two white potatoes--those were hard to come by, and Mami usually hoarded them; a margarine tub into which she had poured cornmeal; some of her homemade hard candy; her sharpest kitchen knife; a pack of matches; and a cigar, which she took from a cookie tin on the topmost shelf.

Ti-Jeanne reached out to touch the cards, then looked at Mami. Her grandmother nodded in encouragement. The Five of Cane, five men dancing the Stick Fight; the Jab-Jab; a prancing, nearly naked man, his body completely covered with red paint, horns stuck to his head, and a snaky, rude-looking tail tied on to his body. But thing I see is some kinda animal, thought Ti-Jeanne, not a man in costume.

When Toronto's economic base collapsed, investors, commerce, and government withdrew into the suburb cities, leaving the rotten core to decay. Those who stayed were the ones who couldn't or wouldn't leave. The street people. The poor people. The ones who didn't see the writing on the wall, or were too stubborn to give up their homes. Or who saw the decline of authority as an opportunity.

The plot twists were definitely unexpected for me; however, the characters frustrate me so much!! :(

Eating this book up. It's a real page-turner! Like all the Caribbean-ness.

This book is good! It's great as an audio book because the reader reads with accents!

Such a sad and in some ways foreseeable (sic) Toronto. Wonderful blend of Urban Caribbean Diaspora Magic Realism (geez that's long!). I did enjoy it.

A good book.
Very similar to her 2nd book. But still really good. Ti-Jeanne is hard to love as a main character, but thats the beauty of being human. Not perfect and not always rational but she is who she is.

Getting to the good part! But, arrived home and need to keep on writing. I'll finish it tomorrow.

god, i'm taking my time…

Something had changed between them. They were two women now, no longer an adult and a child.

Tony could give sweet, sweet talk. Words so nice, they would charm the money from your pocket, the caution from your heart, the clothes from your body. Words so sweet and soothing, they sounded like love, like let me hold you the way your mama never held you, like come and be my only special one, my doux-doux darling. Words that promised heaven.

Creepy and engrossing. Loving it!

I'm really enjoying this book so far! The pace is consistently good, too.

Nalo wakes us up: Guess what? The apocalypse won't be whites only.