{"id":12773,"date":"2010-02-04T16:33:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/02\/04\/12773.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:03","slug":"book-report-island-of-the-bles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/02\/04\/book-report-island-of-the-bles\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Island of the Blessed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first book Your Humble Blogger read in 2010 was Islands of the Blessed<\/a>, the final book in what has turned out to be a trilogy by Nancy Farmer. Well, I hope it’s the final book.\n

And it probably wasn’t the first book I read, if you are going to count picture books. In which case the first book may well have been A Visit to the Sesame Street Library<\/a>, by Deborah Hautzig, in which Big Bird and Grover listen to LPs through headphones the size of two gophers on a rack. The Youngest Member has been on a visit to the Library, the Zoo, and the Aquarium so far. The Zoo is clearly the best as a book; the Aquarium is the worst (needs more Bert). The Library is kinda OK, but the highlight is the turntable.\n

Anyway, the first book that I read to myself in 2010 was the Nancy Farmer. Now, I wasn’t knocked out by either The Sea of Trolls<\/a> or The Land of the Silver Apples<\/a>. They were OK, but not as good as The House of the Scorpion<\/i> or particularly The Ear, the Eye and the Arm<\/i>. Anyway, there I was, far from home, in a strange library, and there was the latest in a series that was perfectly good if not great, by a writer who is terrific, so I went for it.\n

And, you know, I enjoyed it a lot. There are still some annoying or irritating things about the series as a whole, but it’s possible that this third one is my favorite of them. Certainly, when it came time to return home, I made an effort to finish the book before I had to give it back.\n

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

In Which Your Humble Blogger throws in an extra book report, for those who dare to read it.<\/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-12773","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\/12773","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=12773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18996,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions\/18996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}