{"id":13059,"date":"2010-05-27T17:35:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/05\/27\/13059.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:55:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:55:58","slug":"book-report-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/05\/27\/book-report-dragonfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I really liked the cover of Julia Golding’s Dragonfly<\/a> when I picked it up off the shelf. Alas, when I was done with the book, I disliked the cover quite a bit. And, as you all know, I judge books by their covers. So what’s a fellow to do?\n

The issue is that the dragonfly on the cover is a jeweled pin, lovely and dramatic against the black background. And if the dragonfly in the book were a jeweled pin of some kind, I would not take points off for the picture not corresponding exactly to the description. If the dragonfly in the book were a real insect, I wouldn’t dislike the cover, either, I think; the image is a good one and probably better than a picture of an actual dragonfly. If the dragonfly in the book were a metaphorical dragonfly—that is, if there were no dragonfly in the book at all, but a running motif where people talk about dragonflies or some such—the jeweled dragonfly would be OK, as well, I guess. If the dragonfly just referred to a person, a nickname or alias or something similar, well, it would have to somehow work as a representation of the person, but fine. And the princess in the book is the dragonfly of the title, as a dragonfly is the symbol of her, um, don’t remember, a personal totem or a family emblem or something. But there is a plot point<\/i> that involves her giving an origami dragonfly to someone, and it being damaged and then fixed. An origami dragonfly.\n

Which would have made a great cover. I mean, why not use an origami dragonfly for the cover? What’s the point of using a brooch instead? Why screw with it? Gr.\n

Coincidentally, the book had a lot of things in it that seemed like things I like, but which I didn’t actually like. I can’t say that a paper dragonfly on the cover would have changed, that, but…\n

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

In Which Your Humble Blogger judges the cover by the book. Or something.<\/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-13059","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\/13059","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=13059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19099,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13059\/revisions\/19099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}