{"id":22512,"date":"2023-04-08T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T17:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22512"},"modified":"2023-04-08T12:07:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T17:07:14","slug":"reading-report-early-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22512","title":{"rendered":"Reading Report: Early April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finished <em>The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane<\/em> by Kate DeCamillo. Edward is a china rabbit doll that belongs to a little girl, Abilene. She loves him, but he doesn&#8217;t know how to love her back. Then she loses him at sea. He&#8217;s rescued, and then lost again, several times. During this &#8220;miraculous journey&#8221; he learns how to love the various people who find him and care for him. It&#8217;s a sweet little book, and a nice palate cleanser after <em>Where the Red Fern Grows<\/em>. The short chapters and beautiful illustrations would make <em>The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane<\/em> an excellent read-aloud book. Having finished it, I now have only 14 of the Top 100 Children&#8217;s Books left to read!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also finished <em>Emily Wilde&#8217;s Encyclopaedia of Faeries<\/em> by Heather Fawcett. Emily Wilde is a fairy scholar who travels to a small town in the far north to gather more material for the encylopedia that she&#8217;s writing. Part fantasy, part romance, totally enjoyable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had planned to read <em>Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match<\/em> by Sally Thorne next. In this ghoulish romance, Angelika Frankenstein worries that she&#8217;s not going to find the perfect mate. Being a Frankenstein, she has it within her power to literally create the man of her dreams, so she goes to the morgue and starts looking for the perfect body parts. That&#8217;s as far as I got into the story. There were a lot of crude references to the male anatomy in the morgue scene. That wasn&#8217;t a deal breaker, but it did suggest that I ought to check the reviews before getting too far into the book. The reviews were not promising. I decided to return the book to the library without finishing it. So I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m going to read next. I guess it will depend on what seems appealing later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DeCamillo. Edward is a china rabbit doll that belongs to a little girl, Abilene. She loves him, but he doesn&#8217;t know how to love her back. Then she loses him &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=22512\">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\/22512"}],"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=22512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22517,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22512\/revisions\/22517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}