{"id":11545,"date":"2008-10-17T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T20:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/10\/17\/11545.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:49:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:49:21","slug":"book-report-twice-upon-a-marig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/10\/17\/book-report-twice-upon-a-marig\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Twice Upon a Marigold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, YHB read and enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/09\/12\/3127.html\">Once upon a Marigold<\/a> without particularly wanting a sequel, or for that matter seeking out anything else by Jean Ferris. As it happens the book came up in a discussion of what to read to the Perfect Non-Reader as a bedtime book (we chose <i>The Pushcart War<\/i> instead this time), so when I happened to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harcourtbooks.com\/bookcatalogs\/bookpages\/9780152063825.asp\">Twice Upon a Marigold<\/a> on the library shelf, well, home it came. And it was a good read, pleasant, not (I think) as good as the first, nor ultimately at all necessary, but not particularly irritating or even disappointing, either.<br \/>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly happy that my local library, which is the main branch for the town, now has a New Books area in the Teen Room. I&#8217;m less keen about the Teen Room in general, as it is in a different part of the library from my usual path, and I often forget to go there, but at least when I do go, I can easily grab two or three things that catch my eye. Last week it was three things, all sequels to books I had enjoyed. So that&#8217;s all right, too.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger wonders about how some books I liked at the time linger in my memory as lousy, and some I didn&#8217;t like seem to improve over time. Well, I don&#8217;t actually wonder about that in the note, but y&#8217;all are used to these pull-quotes being irrelevant to the so-called main text, right?<\/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-11545","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\/11545","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=11545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18543,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545\/revisions\/18543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}