{"id":10510,"date":"2007-05-08T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T14:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/05\/08\/10510.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:27","slug":"book-report-the-wee-free-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/05\/08\/book-report-the-wee-free-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Wee Free Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think I have mentioned before that I consider Terry Pratchett&#8217;s books to be mildly enjoyable, mildly annoying, and pretty safe. I pick one up from the library now and then, knowing that if I&#8217;m looking for something not very strenuous to read, it&#8217;ll fill the bill. So I happened to be by the YA\/Teen shelf (as I not infrequently am) and picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/9780060012366\/The_Wee_Free_Men\/index.aspx\">The Wee Free Men<\/a>.\n<p>I was surprised by how much I liked it. It&#8217;s a lot less jokey than most of the DiscWorld series, and the villain is genuinely spooky in places. I wouldn&#8217;t call any of the characters <I>fleshed-out<\/I>, but our heroine has what might be called <I>traits<\/I> rather than <I>shtick<\/I>.\n<p>And, of course, it was mildly entertaining, mildly annoying and not very strenuous. So, score for me.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have mentioned before that I consider Terry Pratchett\u2019s books to be mildly enjoyable, mildly annoying, and pretty safe. I pick one up from the library now and then, knowing that if I\u2019m looking for something not very&#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-10510","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\/10510","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=10510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18022,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions\/18022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}