{"id":1717,"date":"2004-01-24T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T16:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/01\/24\/1717.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:19","slug":"book-report-mister-monday-abho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/01\/24\/book-report-mister-monday-abho\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Mister Monday; Abhorsen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first new book Your Humble Blogger read in the new year was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garthnix.co.uk\/\">Garth Nix<\/a>&#8217;s <i>Mister Monday<\/i>, from the Keys to the Kingdom (New York: Scholastic 2003). It was, well, good enough. It's a juvenile fantasy, fairly dark, with quite a few lovely inventive things, and quite a few clunky awkward bits that didn't work for me. I'll probably want to read the next in the series, although I won't be counting the days.\n\n<p>I also read his <i>Abhorsen<\/i>, the second half of a story begun in <i>Lirael<\/i>, which two comprise a sequel to <i>Sabrael<\/i>. I was disappointed in <i>Abhorsen<\/i>; there were several stretches I felt were padding, and the totally inventive and fascinating world he created in the first book and explored a bit in the second was pretty much simply there in the third. Of course, the helpful talking animal-who-isn't-really-an-animal-but-simply-chooses-to-appear-as-one was a cat in the first book, and a dog in the second and third, and I don't like dogs. Not that I like cats particularly, but I am far more resigned to fantasy books with querulous cats as supporting characters.\n\n<p>Anyway, if you like juvenile fantasy with a good helping of imagination and Death, Nix is worth dipping into.\n\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first new book Your Humble Blogger read in the new year was Garth Nix\u2019s Mister Monday, from the Keys to the Kingdom (New York: Scholastic 2003). It was, well, good enough. It&#8217;s a juvenile fantasy, fairly dark, with quite&#8230;<\/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-1717","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\/1717","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=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16888,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/16888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}