{"id":11400,"date":"2008-08-25T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/08\/25\/11400.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:49:15","slug":"book-report-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/08\/25\/book-report-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9780143036661,00.html?March_Geraldine_Brooks\">March<\/a> had been recommended to me by a Gentle Reader who is aware of my fondness for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/04\/12\/10484.html\">Little Women<\/a>, <i>Little Men<\/i> and <i>Jo&#8217;s Boys<\/i>. A different Gentle Reader gave me a copy of Geraldine Brooks&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/06\/16\/11242.html\">People of the Book<\/a>, which I very much enjoyed. So I picked up <i>March<\/i> prepared to like it.<br \/>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t. Well, that&#8217;s a bit harsh. There was quite a lot in it that I liked. She is very good at character, and I liked both Mr. March and Grace. I didn&#8217;t much buy that Mr. March was the Mr. March that is missing from <I>Little Women<\/i>, but that&#8217;s all right; he was a transcendentalist abolitionist Civil War chaplain far from home, which is interesting enough. I was a trifle disappointed that Ms. Brooks didn&#8217;t put more <i>Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress<\/i> into the book (unless she put it in so subtly that I didn&#8217;t notice, and the river is the Slough of Despond, the plantation Vanity Fair and the contraband farm Doubting Castle, or something like that) and explore Mr. March&#8217;s unconventional piety, but that&#8217;s an interest of mine, not necessarily of hers.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which a pretty good book fails to fulfill Your Humble Blogger\u2019s expectations.<\/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-11400","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\/11400","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=11400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18479,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions\/18479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}