{"id":3057,"date":"2005-08-12T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/08\/12\/3057.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:02","slug":"book-report-drowned-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/08\/12\/book-report-drowned-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Drowned Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The latest book in Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom series is <a href=\"http:\/\/scholastic.com\/titles\/keys\/books.htm#wednesday\">Drowned Wednesday<\/a>, and it's a doozy. Lots of unexpected stuff, from how Wednesday was drowned to a nice little cliffhanger surprise at the end. One thing that is particularly nice about this series is that despite being solidly in the taken-from-his-family-to-a-fantastic-place-where-his-amazing-powers-can-blossom-and-bear-fruit tradition, there is a nicely plausible reason why our hero's near-omnipotence can't be exercised. So it works.\nMostly, though, this book is a romp. Pirates, a Leviathan, incompetent pirate wannabes, otherworldly servants, little girls pressed into pirate duty, mysterious sorcerers with moving tattoos, horrible undead cephalopod pirates, a giant talking goldfish, stolen pirate treasure, and a submarine crewed by rats. Did I mention the pirates? If only there were zeppelins, we'd really be cooking with gas.\n<p><i>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek,<\/i><br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest book in Garth Nix&#8217;s Keys to the Kingdom series is Drowned Wednesday, and it&#8217;s a doozy. Lots of unexpected stuff, from how Wednesday was drowned to a nice little cliffhanger surprise at the end. One thing that is&#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-3057","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\/3057","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=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17491,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/17491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}