{"id":2314,"date":"2004-10-03T20:32:01","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T00:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/10\/03\/2314.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:46:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:46:44","slug":"book-report-inkheart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/10\/03\/book-report-inkheart\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Inkheart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My Best Reader and I have, for some years, been reading aloud to each other at bedtime. We choose novels, usually, and often choose Young Adult (aimed, more or less, at 9-12 years) books. Our most recent choice was <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.scholastic.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay?productId=23996&amp;langId=-1&amp;storeId=10101&amp;catalogId=10004\"><I>Inkheart<\/I><\/a>, by Cornelia Funke, which had been recommended as a gift for a 10-year-old friend of ours, and which gift was enjoyed by said 10-year-old.\n<p>And then by us. It&#8217;s a terrific book, and it works quite well aloud. I&#8217;m trying to think of a good comparison... it&#8217;s not really Harry Potteresque, although the protagonist discovers that our world has much more magic than she knew, and that her own magic is strong. It&#8217;s more like <I>Treasure Island<\/I>, although it&#8217;s set in the modern world, and the villains are scarier and less outrageous. On the other hand, my Best Reader thinks it&#8217;s more like <I>Charlotte&#8217;s Web<\/I> than <I>Treasure Island<\/I>, so make what you will of that. At any rate, we agree that it&#8217;s very good. I think it&#8217;s the best YA book I&#8217;ve read since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinputnam.com\/Book\/BookFrame\/0,,,00.html?id=0140376410\"><I>The Eye, the Ear, the Arm<\/I><\/a>; it might be better than that one or worse, but since they are both very good, what are the odds, 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>In Which Your Humble Blogger compares the book to Monopoly in Spain.<\/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-2314","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\/2314","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=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17143,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions\/17143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}