{"id":12633,"date":"2009-12-22T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/12\/22\/12633.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:00","slug":"book-report-castle-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/12\/22\/book-report-castle-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Castle in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Somewhere last month or the month before I re-read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/9780061478772\/Castle_in_the_Air\/index.aspx\">Castle in the Sky<\/a>, a Diana Wynne-Jones romp that works surprisingly well the second time through. This might even be the third. I had forgotten two of the major plot points (which I cannot now remember, but this note here says <i>forgot two major plot points<\/i> so I did forget them, and now have forgotten them again), which is usually a bad sign for me. I mean, sometimes it&#8217;s annoying to re-read the book while knowing what the Big Reveal will reveal bigly, but I find that if I have forgotten the Big Reveal entirely, it means that the Big Reveal was smallish and probably annoying. Still, I enjoyed going through this one again.\n<p>I think I have to put Diana Wynne Jones into the frequent-reread category, along with Lois McMaster Bujold, Dick Francis and Mary Renault. The books that, when I am standing in front of the bookcases complaining that I have <I>nothing at all a-tall at all<\/i> to read and why don&#8217;t we have any books in this house anyway, come easiest to hand. Perhaps I&#8217;ll add P.G. Wodehouse to that category, although in point of actual fact, I hardly ever pick one up. Because we don&#8217;t own very many, mostly&#8212;we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/11\/19\/10740.html\">Leave it to Psmith<\/a>, of course, and a couple of Jeeves books, and I think that&#8217;s it. And I tend to keep <i>Psmith<\/i> for occasions of dire need.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger has, in practical terms, less than a week now to finish up.<\/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-12633","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\/12633","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=12633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18961,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12633\/revisions\/18961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}