{"id":2401,"date":"2004-11-05T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T15:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/11\/05\/2401.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:47:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:47:24","slug":"book-report-the-ear-the-eye-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/11\/05\/book-report-the-ear-the-eye-an\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinputnam.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,0_0141311096,00.html\">The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm<\/a> a month or so ago in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=2314\">a note about Inkheart<\/a>. From that point it was only a matter of time before I re-read it. And it&#8217;s even better than I remembered.\n<p>Seriously, if you have any interest in Young Adult specfic, you should read this book. It&#8217;s more fantasy than science fiction, despite holoscreens, aircars, and mutations. There&#8217;s a good deal of <I>Shona<\/I> magic, or rather, a good deal of <I>Shona<\/I> atmosphere, which is much the same thing. The main character is a fourteen-year-old boy who is growing out of a sheltered childhood in late 22nd century Harare. The older and younger characters are played with a certain sympathy, rather than as total buffoons, which is nice. The plot is episodic within the general lost-in-the-city arc, which is a little disappointing to me, but probably better for the intended audience. The scary stuff is seriously scary, but within the young-adult frame, that is, the threats are real, but the violence never quite happens.\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s a terrific book. I haven&#8217;t yet read her others, but I will.\n<p>Thank you,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger mentioned The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm a month or so ago in a note about Inkheart. From that point it was only a matter of time before I re-read it. And it\u2019s even better than&#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-2401","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\/2401","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=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17186,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/17186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}