{"id":10588,"date":"2007-08-19T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/08\/19\/10588.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:55","slug":"book-report-river-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/08\/19\/book-report-river-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: River Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger had read <I>Goose Girl<\/I> a few years ago and enjoyed it, and then forgotten who wrote it. That sort of thing happens a lot. Less so, since I started trying to blog everything I read, so that&#8217;s a plus. Anyway, I eventually found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=10512\">Princess Academy<\/a>, discovered it was written by the same Shannon Hale that wrote <I>Goose Girl<\/I>, and decided to keep an eye out for her stuff.\n<p>Which is why I picked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsburyusa.com\/catalogue\/details2.asp?cat=5&amp;page=3&amp;isbn=9781582349015&amp;cf=1\">River Secrets<\/a> off the library shelf. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s the third in what has become the Bayern trilogy, of which <I>Goose Girl<\/I> is the first. Fortunately, Ms. Hale has done a fine job of making the book stand on its own. Unfortunately, that seems to have involved enough recounting the plot of <I>Enna Burning<\/I> that I don&#8217;t particularly want to go back and read the middle one. Fortunately, Ms. Hale has written a book for grups, published this summer! Unfortunately, it&#8217;s effectively chick-lit. Fortunately, it&#8217;s chick-lit with lots of references to 19th Century Novels. Unfortunately, they are Jane Austen novels. Fortunately, it&#8217;s set in the present day, and is not in any way a sequel. Unfortunately, it appears to have people <I>pretending<\/I> they are in Jane Austen novels, at some sort of Jane Austen Theme Park.\n<p>I can&#8217;t decide if it is Fortunate or Unfortunate that my local library doesn&#8217;t have a copy yet.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger had read Goose Girl a few years ago and enjoyed it, and then forgotten who wrote it. That sort of thing happens a lot. Less so, since I started trying to blog everything I read, so that\u2019s&#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-10588","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\/10588","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=10588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16216,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588\/revisions\/16216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}