{"id":12126,"date":"2009-05-21T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T20:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/05\/21\/12126.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:03","slug":"book-report-from-the-mixed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/05\/21\/book-report-from-the-mixed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our Perfect Non-Reader likes fantasy stories, with magic and mysteries and whatnot, which is a Good Thing. On the other hand, it’s a Good Thing to expand the proverbial a bit, so we try to sneak in a non-genre book every two or three Bedtime Books, largely with reasonable success. And it certainly hasn’t slowed her down on the dragons and time-travel fare any. Although, oddly enough, she is on one of her non-fiction kicks, where she takes from the library three or four large illustrated books on a topic of interest and scours them for tidbits. She knows more about samurai armor than I do, which isn’t all that surprising, but still. Is that a milestone in parenting, when your child gets interested enough in some topic (some actual historical or physical topic, not a fictional series) that she knows more than you do?\n

Well, and I’m certain that a milestone in parenting must be when you read From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/a> and identify not with Claudia or Jaime, nor with Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, but with the frantic parents of the missing children. Seriously, I couldn’t enjoy all the wonderful stuff in the book because the children had gone missing<\/I> and the parents didn’t know where they were. After several days, when they do laundry, all I can think of is that the parents have now spent however-many days on the search, not how the kids are both handling themselves well and turning their underwear grey.\n

The Perfect Non-Reader loved it, though, only read ahead a little bit, and has been rereading it in the week or two since we finished. So that<\/I>’s all right.\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Which Your Humble Blogger will presumably relax about that whole missing-children thing when the kids are married and moved out.<\/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-12126","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\/12126","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=12126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18775,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126\/revisions\/18775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}