{"id":10203,"date":"2006-05-02T08:35:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T12:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/05\/02\/10203.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:54:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:54:50","slug":"book-report-grave-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/05\/02\/book-report-grave-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Grave Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s always a bit odd reading a first-in-the-series when you&#8217;ve read the other books in the series, and it&#8217;s even odder re-reading it when you&#8217;ve re-read the other books more often. There are things that just don&#8217;t seem correct, sometimes because the author hasn&#8217;t really settled in yet, or hasn&#8217;t hit on the right formula yet, or sometimes because the author is slowly introducing you to someone you already know very well indeed. It&#8217;s particularly odd re-reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780553573992\">Grave Talent<\/a>, where Laurie R. King hides for half the book the fact that Kate Martinelli is&#8212;gasp!&#8212;a lesbian. Which, you know, I knew.\n<p>Anyway, the thing is that there&#8217;s evidently a new Martinelli coming out this month, which evidently involves Kate and Al searching for (don&#8217;t say it, no, please don&#8217;t, just let me die in blissful ignorance) Mary Russell. Ah, well. Yes, of course, I&#8217;ll read it. I can&#8217;t stop now.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always a bit odd reading a first-in-the-series when you\u2019ve read the other books in the series, and it\u2019s even odder re-reading it when you\u2019ve re-read the other books more often. There are things that just don\u2019t seem correct, sometimes&#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-10203","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\/10203","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=10203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17742,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203\/revisions\/17742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}