{"id":10835,"date":"2007-12-30T17:36:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T22:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/12\/30\/10835.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:57:45","slug":"book-report-random-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/12\/30\/book-report-random-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Random Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The last James Hilton book Your Humble Blogger read was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/11\/27\/10364.html\">Goodbye, Mr. Chips<\/a>, after which I discovered that he was the same fellow who wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/12\/31\/2532.html\">Lost Horizon<\/a>. At the time, I wrote <I>I must remember to seek out his <A HREF=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=o4zbB_pXby8C&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1\">Random Harvest<\/a><\/I>. That was about a year ago. I finally remembered to seek it out. It&amp;#8217s wonderful.<br \/>\n<p>I don&amp;#8217t usually worry about spoilers, and I certainly don&amp;#8217t usually worry about spoiling a sixty-year-old book, but I think this is a <I>wonderful<\/I> book, and I don&amp;#8217t want any Gentle Reader who might possibly be considering reading it to walk into it with any more preconceived notions than she can help. I mean, it&amp;#8217s already going to color your reading to know that it&amp;#8217s by James Hilton (and thus is <I>about the war<\/I>, no matter what it&amp;#8217s about) and to know that it was published in 1941. And I don&amp;#8217t think you need to put that aside. But there&amp;#8217s a lot going on in the book&#8212;plot, yes, but other stuff, too&#8212;and I think it&amp;#8217s best enjoyed forwards first.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger really starts trying to catch up on Book Reports before the end of the year.<\/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-10835","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\/10835","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=10835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18204,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions\/18204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}