{"id":3112,"date":"2005-09-06T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T19:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/09\/06\/3112.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:04","slug":"book-report-the-chronicles-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/09\/06\/book-report-the-chronicles-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An email specfic discussion group that includes Your Humble Blogger chose as this autumn&#8217;s books the Chrestomanci novels of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianawynnejones.com\/\">Diana Wynne Jones<\/a>. I had read them, a year or two ago, and actually own them. Sadly, all my paperbacks are still in boxes, and may well be in boxes for another year or two. I could (possibly) have opened all the boxes and hunted through them for the thing, but I thought that instead I would just get the thing from the library. Well, and it turns out that my small-town library has&#8212;get this&#8212;no Diana Wynne Jones books at all. None. I mean, I know it&#8217;s a small-town library, but it has a pretty reasonable collection of YA books to browse through. I think (particularly after this summer&#8217;s movie) that her stuff is (a) popular enough and (2) similar enough to Harry Potter to be on any library&#8217;s shelves.\n<p>Half-an-hour&#8217;s drive away from this small town, though, is a large town, which has a larger and spiffier library. I visited that library last week and picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/global_scripts\/product_catalog\/book_xml.asp?isbn=006447268X\">The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume I<\/a>. That&#8217;s the very same edition I own, which gave me the sense that I was rereading my own book, which was nice, but I shall have to remember to return the thing.\n \n\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email specfic discussion group that includes Your Humble Blogger chose as this autumn\u2019s books the Chrestomanci novels of Diana Wynne Jones. I had read them, a year or two ago, and actually own them. Sadly, all my paperbacks are&#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-3112","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\/3112","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=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17516,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions\/17516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}