{"id":13475,"date":"2010-12-07T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T16:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/12\/07\/13475.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:58:08","slug":"book-report-the-neddiad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/12\/07\/book-report-the-neddiad\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Neddiad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger had noticed, way back when, that Daniel Pinkwater was publishing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com\/catalog\/titledetail.cfm?textType=purchase&amp;titleNumber=574616\">The Neddiad<\/a> on a website before publishing it as a bound book. I meant to keep going back and reading it, but never did. I suppose I didn&#8217;t have an aggregator in those days, and forgot to go back to the site. And I prefer, still, reading a book to reading on-line.\n<p>Well, and I eventually saw the book for sale and purchased it. So. Well done, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. If that&#8217;s still your name.\n<P>It&#8217;s terrific, but then of course it&#8217;s terrific; this is the sort of thing that Mr. Pinkwater does well, perhaps better than anybody. It&#8217;s a good thing to have a reliable writer, isn&#8217;t it?\n<p>Now, Mr. Pinkwater is again serializing a book previous to publication. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catwhiskeredgirl.com\/\">Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl<\/a>, and he&#8217;s on Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Ball at Spookhuizen, so my guess is he&#8217;s nearly finished. And if it&#8217;s like the last two, it will be taken down when the book is published, so read it now or, you know, wait for a bit longer. While you are at the site, you may want to take a peek at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkwater.com\/podcast\/audioarchive.php\">Audio Archive<\/a>; there are full recordings of Mr. Pinkwater reading <i>The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death<\/i> and <i>Borgel<\/i> and <i>Blue Moose<\/i>. And he&#8217;s adding to it all the time.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger had not completed the Internet, after all.<\/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-13475","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\/13475","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=13475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19242,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13475\/revisions\/19242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}