{"id":10546,"date":"2007-06-11T12:50:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T16:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/06\/11\/10546.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:30","slug":"book-report-mortal-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/06\/11\/book-report-mortal-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Mortal Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I would have expected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/9780060082093\/Mortal_Engines\/index.aspx\">Mortal Engines<\/a> to be right up my alley. I mean, airships, post-nuclear wasteland, wild skiffy machines, sentimental cyborg assassins, art historians with guns. And, in fact, I liked it a lot. Somehow, though, I didn&#8217;t feel the compulsion to keep reading it that I feel with many of my favorite books. I was quite able to set the book down for an hour or a day, and when I noticed it sitting quietly all bookmarked and waiting, I didn&#8217;t rush over to it to grab it up. I finished it, and I enjoyed finishing it, and it is, all in all, a good read, but somehow it didn&#8217;t grab me the way I would have expected it to.\n<p>Still, Philip Reeve has written three more, and I expect in the fullness of time I will read those and enjoy them, so that&#8217;s all right.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would have expected Mortal Engines to be right up my alley. I mean, airships, post-nuclear wasteland, wild skiffy machines, sentimental cyborg assassins, art historians with guns. And, in fact, I liked it a lot. Somehow, though, I didn\u2019t feel&#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-10546","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\/10546","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=10546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18049,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions\/18049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}