{"id":13159,"date":"2010-07-13T16:18:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/07\/13\/13159.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:56:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:56:01","slug":"book-report-the-cabinet-of-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/07\/13\/book-report-the-cabinet-of-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Cabinet of Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger does remember enjoying <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/thecabinetofwonders\">The Cabinet of Wonders<\/a> (The Kronos Chronicles: Book I), by Marie Rutkoski. It&#8217;s another one of those semi-Victorian YA books, this time with loads of speculative elements (including a set of invisible tools that goes missing), an extremely creepy Bad Guy who wears other people&#8217;s eyes and loads of magic stuff. And a cool clock that will Destroy the World.\n<p>My recollection, which may (as I have been saying) be wrong, is that I read this one and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/07\/12\/13157.html\">Solomon Spoon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/06\/22\/13121.html\">The Thief<\/a> all within a short stretch of time (after tying off the Vorkosigan kick), and that I enjoyed this much more than the other two. On the other hand, looking down my list of books to blog, there are three more YA books that I think I read in a short stretch of time, enjoying one much more than the other two. So. Perhaps I&#8217;m thinking of those other books. Or, perhaps, I have a habit of getting three YA books out from the library at the same time and reading them in quick succession, which very likely entails my comparing them and discovering that I like one much more than the other two.\n<p>Plus, it occurs to me, I&#8217;m pretty sure <i>Cabinet<\/i> isn&#8217;t a library book but a school book sale book. I hope so, anyway, because I think it&#8217;s still on my shelf upstairs.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is too squicky about eyeballs to talk about the book in any detail.<\/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-13159","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\/13159","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=13159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19135,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions\/19135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}