{"id":2153,"date":"2010-12-22T20:47:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T01:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:45:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:45:59","slug":"unseen-academicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2153","title":{"rendered":"Unseen Academicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2iPR1jQ\">Unseen Academicals<\/a><\/em> (2009) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/prachett.php\">Terry Pratchett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2iPR1jQ\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Unseen-Academicals.jpg?resize=192%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6970\" \/><\/a>Although there were parts of this story that I loved, there were other parts I was less sure about&#8211;it may just have been my interpretation, but parts of it felt a little bit too heavy on the moralizing.<\/p>\n<p>But I loved Glenda.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Harper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unseen Academicals (2009) Terry Pratchett Although there were parts of this story that I loved, there were other parts I was less sure about&#8211;it may just have been my interpretation, but parts of it felt a little bit too heavy on the moralizing. But I loved Glenda. 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First, because I wasn't reading a lot of fantasy. Then, because I knew there wouldn't be any more Discworld books, and I wanted to save the reading of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Unseen Academicals","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Unseen-Academicals.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Unseen-Academicals.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Unseen-Academicals.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Unseen-Academicals.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Unseen-Academicals.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Unseen-Academicals.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":63,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/63","url_meta":{"origin":2153,"position":1},"title":"The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents","author":"Michelle","date":"March 30, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (2001) Terry Pratchett The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is one of Terry Pratchett's young adult books, are set in Discworld. Talking cats, talking rats, and an appearance by Death (as well as by the Death of Rats). Aside from being slightly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17715,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/17715","url_meta":{"origin":2153,"position":2},"title":"Carpe Jugulum","author":"Michelle","date":"September 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Carpe Jugulum (1998) Terry Pratchett (Discworld) Verence and Magrat have invited everyone to the naming ceremony of their daughter. In Lancre, you named children at midnight, so that they started a day with a new name. Unfortunately, everyone means a priest of Om. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t like me\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;7\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"7\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Carpe Jugulum","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Carpe-Jugulum.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Carpe-Jugulum.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Carpe-Jugulum.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Carpe-Jugulum.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Carpe-Jugulum.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Carpe-Jugulum.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":66,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/66","url_meta":{"origin":2153,"position":3},"title":"Carpe Jugulum","author":"Michelle","date":"April 6, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Carpe Jugulum (1998) Terry Pratchett I'm not quite sure what it is, but I found this book disappointing. Don't get me wrong, there were places where I laughed out loud--it just seemed like those places were farther apart than usual. There were lots of tables [in Nanny Ogg's house], mainly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2156,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2156","url_meta":{"origin":2153,"position":4},"title":"Wintersmith","author":"Michelle","date":"December 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Wintersmith (2006) Terry Pratchett Oddly, I thought I'd read Wee Free Men, but apparently I hadn't. I tend to be quite fond of young adult books, and Terry Pratchett is no exception; not that his adult books would be unacceptable for young adults, it's simply Tiffany Aching is a Teenager.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/wintersmith.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2720,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2720","url_meta":{"origin":2153,"position":5},"title":"Night Watch","author":"Michelle","date":"December 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Night Watch (2002) Terry Pratchett This book, for me, strikes far more political chords than funny bones. It doesn't make it bad, it just makes it a lot darker than some other Terry Pratchett book. (He) started in the wrong place. he didn't look around, and watch, and learn, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Night-Watch.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}