Long before joining with a larger band of readers to participate in a “group read”, Kailana and I were doing “buddy reads”. I believe we started these during one of the Once Upon a Time challenges with a Charles de Lint book and have been trying to read a de Lint book together for this event each year. We decided to continue that tradition this Spring with Charles de Lint’s 2003 novel, Spirits in the Wires. We will be posting our discussion of the book in two parts, with Kailana asking the questions for each of us to answer for the first half of the book and me taking on the second half.
Spirits in the Wires is set in Newford, the North American city of de Lint’s imagination where magic rubs shoulders with the mundane. It is a city where artists and musicians, the homeless and folks with an open mind discover that the veil between our world and the fantastic can very thin indeed. In a number of short stories and novels Charles de Lint showcases the lives of the various inhabitants of Newford and in so doing spotlights how very extraordinary the ordinary things of life can be.
Now on with the discussion.
Continue reading Spirits in the Wires ~Charles de Lint (Part 1)
