Blog 1, thoughts

So far I'm noting only small doses of magical realism for this book, as compared to the last. We see strange occurrences and an especially powerful orange. To me it seems to be more of a light addition to true fiction, creative story telling with characters who may have internal voices, powers, or intuitions that lead them to.. situations we won't know until later in the book.

I'm kind of feeling that any book could be considered magical realism, so long as it is a mostly realistic story with a few physically impossible things happening. Which is most fiction stories, isn't it?

I like the style of the book so far, short vignettes that show each perspective. I've seen this often used in books or movies, and it is the most fun way to view a story. All the characters with independent chapters all connected in some way.

Buzzworm is a fun character, but the only characters I have found myself following and interested in have been Emi and Gabriel. Perhaps because they seem the most human. And they seem a bit difficult to predict.

The orange is kind of freaky. So the orange trees are a line that somehow have connected themselves to the Tropic of Cancer. And the orange, the child of the last tree, created this line. The orange has been moved, and the tropic of cancer is apparently moving with it, changing the weather etc. That's what I got out of it so far.