{"id":13200,"date":"2010-07-29T17:17:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T21:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/07\/29\/13200.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:56:02","slug":"book-report-harry-potter-and-t-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/07\/29\/book-report-harry-potter-and-t-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My Perfect Non-Reader did, in fact, enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/03\/02\/12837.html\">Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/a> as a bedtime book, so <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> all right.\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to read her the fourth book for a while, mostly because I didn&#8217;t much like the fourth book and don&#8217;t want to read it myself anytime soon.\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering, though, and I would have to re-read the thing myself to find out, whether the introductory novella could be separated out from the book and read (in a few months) as a semi-detached Bedtime Book in itself. That&#8217;s the World Cup bit, of course. I remember reading it aloud with my Best Reader, and thinking that it really seemed to be nearly complete in itself, lacking a real payoff, of course, but still entertaining, as long as you weren&#8217;t fretting for the actual book to begin.\n<p>I don&#8217;t know. She hasn&#8217;t been angling to start the next one yet, so perhaps I should just let the whole thing go until she brings it up. Frankly, I am a trifle ambivalent about the rest of the books being Bedtime Books at all, as they are very, very long, and not all that wonderful. I mean, I would call them <i>good books<\/i> within the meaning of the Act, but I wouldn&#8217;t call them Great Books. And while I in theory like the idea of reading all of them aloud to my Perfect Non-Reader, I&#8217;m not sure that the marginal sweetness doesn&#8217;t drop off quite a bit when you get deeply into the series. Particularly since there are other books in the world, even other books I am looking forward to reading to my Perfect Non-Reader as Bedtime Books, and from Four on in, each book is a commitment of months.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger calls it a trilogy.<\/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-13200","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\/13200","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=13200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19149,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200\/revisions\/19149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}