{"id":2410,"date":"2004-11-08T17:42:34","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/11\/08\/2410.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:47:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:47:25","slug":"book-report-diplomatic-immunit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/11\/08\/book-report-diplomatic-immunit\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Diplomatic Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about y&#8217;all, Gentle Readers, but depression sends me to the old bookshelf. And then to the bathtub. And if Your Humble Blogger is looking for a bathtub book, the shelf with all the Bujolds is pretty much where I start. As you may have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/search-results.php?Search-Text=bujold\">noticed<\/a>. So, I picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/chapters\/W200205\/0743435338.htm?blurb\">Diplomatic Immunity<\/a>. It&#8217;s good enough, although I think it&#8217;s the worst of the Vorkosigan books. Still, it did its comforting job.\n<p>I do think that the book is a sign that Ms. Bujold is pretty much ready to stop writing about Miles. I note that there are competing rumours of a new book in the works and a lengthy hiatus planned. Fair enough. I&#8217;d enjoy another Quinn book, or a Sergeyar book, but as much as I like Miles, I&#8217;d rather see her take a long break from him than see him in books that don&#8217;t have much to them. And, of course, since I spent two books falling for Ekaterin, I&#8217;m disappointed that Ms. Bujold pretty much fails with her in <I>DI<\/I>. Actually, I could spend a while talking about all the things I don&#8217;t like or that I think don&#8217;t work in the book, but what would be the point? After all, it was there for me when I needed it, and that&#8217;s the important thing.\n<p>Thank you,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know about y\u2019all, Gentle Readers, but depression sends me to the old bookshelf. And then to the bathtub. And if Your Humble Blogger is looking for a bathtub book, the shelf with all the Bujolds is pretty much&#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-2410","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\/2410","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=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17188,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/17188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}