{"id":10956,"date":"2008-02-11T07:54:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/02\/11\/10956.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:10","slug":"book-report-pippi-longstocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/02\/11\/book-report-pippi-longstocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Pippi Longstocking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After finishing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/02\/07\/10945.html\">The Hobbit<\/a>, we decided that the next Bedtime Book for our Perfect Non-Reader should be a trifle less adventurous. Something sillier, more fun, less scary. So we read <I>Pippi Longstocking<\/I>.<br \/>\n<p>It turns out that there is <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780670062768,00.html\">a brand-new translation<\/a> by Tiina Nunnally, which would be interesting to read at some point. We didn&#8217;t read that. We read the good old 1947 (or whatever) translation, which now that you think about it, is a trifle clumsy and, for lack of a better word, translationy. Still. It&#8217;s so wonderful. And the Perfect Non-Reader loved it. Giggles galore.<br \/>\n<p>We finished <i>Pippi<\/i> last night, and tonight we start <i>Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH<\/i>. And with that, Your Humble Blogger is at last caught up on the Book Reports. Or I think I am, at any rate. And I&#8217;m in the middle of three longish books (the new Laurie R. King, Aubrey&#8217;s <I>Brief Lives<\/i>, and a short but dense disquisition on FDR and the dynamics of public opinion and letter-writing) (oh, and I&#8217;ve picked up the Harold Nicolson diaries again, such a surprise), so it may be a few days before I am behind again&#8230;<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger catches up. Briefly.<\/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-10956","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\/10956","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=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18264,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions\/18264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}