I think I’ve mentioned before in this Tohu Bohu that most states produce a list of Good Children’s Books<\/a> each year. Well, the libraries and schools in the states produce the list. For a few years, I’ve taken recommendations from my state’s list, if only because it’s a list of books the library is bound to have a bunch of copies of, usually in a separate display. The last couple of years, my state list is The Nutmeg Award<\/a>, and they’ve done a nice job of bringing some good books to my attention. Yes, The Seven Professors of the Far North<\/a> had been recommended to me, but I had forgotten all about it until I saw the book on the Nutmeg shelf. And, as it happens, Lightning Thief<\/a> had been recommended to me as well, but I had put the little note I made of the recommendation aside, and the name didn’t ring any bells, so I didn’t remember the recommendation until after I had read the book and—here’s the key part—recommended it to the person who had recommended it to me in the first place. Frankly, it’s less embarrassing to just get the titles on-line.\n The reason I recommended it was because I enjoyed the thing a lot. Rick Riordan (who evidently writes grupp mysteries, which perhaps I’ll check out) did a good job with a very old (not to say trite) idea of Updating the Olympians. The plot is exciting, mostly, although there is the Obvious Thing You Aren’t Supposed to Have Guessed. The characters are quite good, particularly the female sidekick, who I was afraid was going to be awful. Unusually, I expect I’ll enjoy the second one at least as much as I enjoyed the first, because I found the world-creation a bit tiresome, just because I have seen it before. The meat of the thing worked very well, and I hope that the second one (which is out, and the third is out this spring) skips straight to that.\n Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>, I think I\u2019ve mentioned before in this Tohu Bohu that most states produce a list of Good Children\u2019s Books each year. Well, the libraries and schools in the states produce the list. For a few years, I\u2019ve taken recommendations from…<\/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-10461","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\/10461","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=10461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16236,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10461\/revisions\/16236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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