{"id":21856,"date":"2022-04-22T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21856"},"modified":"2022-08-30T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T21:54:01","slug":"reading-report-late-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21856","title":{"rendered":"Reading Report: Late April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finished <em>D (A Tale of Two Worlds)<\/em> by Michel Faber. It is this story, the letter D has virtually disappeared from the world. A girl named Dhikilo and a sphinx travel to a strange other world to figure out why the D&#8217;s are going there and how to stop the drain. This book belongs on the shelf between <em>The Wonderful O<\/em> by James Thurber and <em>Ella Minnow Pea<\/em> by Mark Dunn, but since it&#8217;s going into the kids&#8217; section, it will end up alphabetized between works by Elizabeth Enright and Nancy Farmer, and that&#8217;s OK, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also finished <em>Some Kind of Fairy Tale<\/em> by Graham Joyce, a strange story about a girl who goes missing and then returns at Christmas, roughly 20 years later, looking nearly the same as she had when she left, spinning a tale about having been in a different world for six months. This book probably belongs on the shelf between to Raymond Feist&#8217;s <em>Faerie Tale<\/em> and Susanna Clarke&#8217;s J<em>onathan Strange &amp; Mr Norell<\/em>, and maybe that&#8217;s where it&#8217;ll end up. Fairies oughta be scary, and the scary fairies oughta stick together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Parable of the Talents<\/em> by Octavia Butler was overdue at the library, so I had to return it. I did not finish it \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m going to read next. I&#8217;m tired of romances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished D (A Tale of Two Worlds) by Michel Faber. It is this story, the letter D has virtually disappeared from the world. A girl named Dhikilo and a sphinx travel to a strange other world to figure out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21856\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21856"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22055,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21856\/revisions\/22055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}