{"id":305,"date":"2011-05-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2013-07-08T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T23:44:40","slug":"green-witch-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Green Witch, by Alice Hoffmann (book review) – stories of hope, love may come too?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Surviving disaster is one thing. Living beyond the confines of your grief is another. Making memorials<\/a> to mark the passing of loved ones should help ease the pain…<\/p>\n

In this sequel to Green Angel<\/a><\/i>,\u00a0 Ash begins to heal, as the memories of her former world cry out to be recaptured, the captives to be freed, the forbidden technologies whisked out of sight of the invaders. And so she writes down the memories, travels to hear the stories, uses the machines, regardless of the peril.<\/p>\n

Are there parallels to our own history in the events of Green’s world?
\nCan we learn to see different stories as reasonable, to live together in peace?
\nMay this hopeful tale lead us to hopeful times.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Green Witch \/ by Alice Hoffman; illustrated by Matt Mahurin. Scholastic, 2010. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Book Talk<\/b>: Green had watched as the City burned, consumed her family, turned the world to ash as the Horde tried to destroy all technology. Scarred, then healed, she now watches her garden grow tall and strong near the memorial stones for her father, her mother, and her sister.<\/p>\n

The village folks come to Green\u2019s farm and tell her their stories, so many stories that she must make new paper to write them all down (books are the first things that the Horde destroys). And they tell her of \u201cthe witches,\u201d the wise ones who never come to the village, who have special powers after The Fire. But Green will only write down a story directly from its source, so she journeys to find each of the witches and learn their stories, her sister\u2019s dog as her companion.<\/p>\n

When the Finder of hidden technology asks her to help rescue his sister from the Horde\u2019s prison, Green uses the stories of the witches to guide them. Might she find her lost love, as well?<\/p>\n

This beautiful sequel to Green Angel<\/i> shows hope shining through the ashes of war and destruction. (one of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surviving disaster is one thing. Living beyond the confines of your grief is another. Making memorials to mark the passing of loved ones should help ease the pain… In this sequel to Green Angel,\u00a0 Ash begins to heal, as the memories of her former world cry out to be recaptured, the captives to be freed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,19,68,30,41],"tags":[7,4,20,70,16,44,39,38,49,12,15,21,66,35,33,58,6,53,8,59,61],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-future","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-conflict","tag-crime","tag-determination","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-refugees","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-us-artist","tag-us-author","tag-war","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}