{"id":10101,"date":"2005-12-29T09:41:06","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T14:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/12\/29\/10101.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:47","slug":"book-report-time-stops-for-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/12\/29\/book-report-time-stops-for-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Time Stops for No Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Michael Hoeye appears to have self-published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinputnam.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,0_0698119916,00.html\">Time Stops for No Mouse<\/a> and somehow convinced the local bookstores to give him shelf space and even push the book quite a bit. And when you live in Portland (OR), and your local bookstore is called Powell&#8217;s, well, the three-book deal with Penguin was probably a bit of a disappointment, really.\n<p>The book is quite good, although the plot is kinda weak. Mr. Hoeye has a marvelous eye for goofy names: Our hero, Hermux Tantamoq, is a fussy, vain watchmaker, just as you might expect. He falls for a mysterious aviatrix named Linka Perflinger. His gossipy post lady is Lista Blenwipple. The missing scientist is Turfip Dandiffer. The evil scientist is Hiril Mennus. The likeable reporter is Pup Schoonagliffen. The millionaire philanthropist is Ortolina Perriflot. They&#8217;re all terrific characters, too. Well, I was a bit disappointed in Ms. Perriflot and Dr. Dandiffer, but they were fine, really. Oh, and most of them are mice. Some are moles, I think, and there are rats and all, but none of it&#8217;s as annoying (to YHB) as that might be. I&#8217;ll probably read the other two, when they show up at the library.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hoeye appears to have self-published Time Stops for No Mouse and somehow convinced the local bookstores to give him shelf space and even push the book quite a bit. And when you live in Portland (OR), and your local&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17643,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10101\/revisions\/17643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}