{"id":11652,"date":"2008-11-20T17:15:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T22:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/11\/20\/11652.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:49:48","slug":"book-report-a-hat-full-of-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/11\/20\/book-report-a-hat-full-of-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: A Hat Full of Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/9780060586621\/A_Hat_Full_of_Sky\/index.aspx\">A Hat full of Sky<\/a> as much as I liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/05\/08\/10510.html\">Wee Free Men<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure why; there is a lot of good stuff in it, and it is similar to that book in tone. All in all, though, it didn&#8217;t quite work for me.<br \/>\n<p>But I was reminded that even if a particular Terry Pratchett book isn&#8217;t working for me, I find his stuff very <I>smooth<\/i> to read. I relax into it. I&#8217;m fairly likely to stay up later than I had meant to, figuring I&#8217;ll just finish another chapter or maybe two, and eventually getting to the end of the book altogether. This is true even when I&#8217;m aware that I&#8217;m not particularly enjoying the thing. This is probably due to his breezy style (even in this somewhat less jokey sub-series), or to a facility with plot (in the handling, presumably, as the plots themselves aren&#8217;t anything to write home about), or perhaps it&#8217;s that combination of novelty and familiarity that comes only with a new book in an long series. But it happens pretty nearly every time.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger enjoys the book less than he enjoys reading it. Or do I mean more?<\/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-11652","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\/11652","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=11652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18590,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11652\/revisions\/18590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}