{"id":1912,"date":"2004-03-26T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T22:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/03\/26\/1912.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:45:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:45:25","slug":"book-report-the-thief-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/03\/26\/book-report-the-thief-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Thief Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger heard good things about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/titles\/features\/fiction\/inkheart_rrr.asp\">Inkheart<\/a>, and the first chapter was terrific, so it&#8217;ll be our new Bedtime Book. Which means we won&#8217;t even start it for months, and won&#8217;t finish it for a while after that.\n<p>In the meantime, I picked up Cornelia Funke&#8217;s previous book (in English translation by Oliver Latsch), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/titles\/features\/fiction\/thieflord_rrr.asp\">The Thief Lord<\/a> (New York: Scholastic 2002). It was ok, but not wonderful. I think that Venice is supposed to be magical enough all by itself, but it wasn&#8217;t for me. The characters were good, both the adults and the children, which is an achievement, but I could have done with a lot more plot and a lot more wonder. Oh, and the ending didn&#8217;t satisfy me.\n<p>That sounds pretty negative, doesn&#8217;t it? I enjoyed it, and I&#8217;d give it, I don&#8217;t know, three and a half or so motion-sensitive laughing pumpkins out of five, if I used such a scale.\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger heard good things about Inkheart, and the first chapter was terrific, so it\u2019ll be our new Bedtime Book. Which means we won\u2019t even start it for months, and won\u2019t finish it for a while after that. In&#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-1912","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\/1912","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=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16970,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/16970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}