{"id":2184,"date":"2004-08-05T21:40:48","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T01:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/08\/05\/2184.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:46:39","slug":"book-report-the-curse-of-chali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/08\/05\/book-report-the-curse-of-chali\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Curse of Chalion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think I talked about this on somebody else&#8217;s blog last time I read it, before I started my book report, but Lois McMaster Bujold&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/catalog\/book_xml.asp?isbn=0380818604\"><I>The Curse of Chalion<\/I><\/a> really is quite a book. It&#8217;s a romance, of course, and a silly one for all that, with lots of sandals and lots of swords. And yet, it&#8217;s a religious book as well; it takes its own theology seriously, and its epiphany is meant as a religious epiphany even as it solves the plot problem.\n<p>Anybody who reads fantasy, or even speculative fiction, and has an interest in how religion can be portrayed in a complex, naturalistic manner, would likely enjoy reading this. You&#8217;ll have to get past &#8220;The Lady of Spring give you good morning, sir,&#8221; on page seven, and much that&#8217;s similar. It turns out all right. It&#8217;s less annoying (to Your Humble Blogger, anyway) than <I>American Gods<\/I>, anyway.\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I talked about this on somebody else\u2019s blog last time I read it, before I started my book report, but Lois McMaster Bujold\u2019s The Curse of Chalion really is quite a book. It\u2019s a romance, of course, and&#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-2184","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\/2184","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=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17086,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/17086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}