{"id":8892,"date":"2017-03-08T21:22:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T02:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2021-12-16T09:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:07:44","slug":"kitty-goes-to-washington-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/8892","title":{"rendered":"Kitty Goes to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2n0S7OE\">Kitty Goes to Washington<\/a><\/em> (2006) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/vaughnc.php\">Carrie Vaughn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2n0S7OE\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Kitty-Goes-to-Washington.jpg?resize=183%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6639\" \/><\/a>The second Kitty book finds her taking her show on the road after being forced out of Denver, and the getting called to Washington to testify before a Senate hearing.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best things about this book is the contrast between Alette the vampire and Senator Duke, the conservative evangelical Christian.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I happen to believe that immortality ought to make one more sensitive to the plight of the downtrodden, and more apt to work towards the betterment of humanity. Not less. We have the luxury of taking the long view. I know the behavior of some of my kind leaves much to be desired, but please do not judge me by their example.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having recently re-read the short stories, I appreciate Alette even more. I do think that unless monsters truly did not have souls, then vampires like Alette would pop-up, just as Senators like Duke in the story show up far more than we&#8217;d like.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Grand Central Publishing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitty Goes to Washington (2006) Carrie Vaughn The second Kitty book finds her taking her show on the road after being forced out of Denver, and the getting called to Washington to testify before a Senate hearing. One of the best things about this book is the contrast between Alette the vampire and Senator Duke, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,2,48,291,41,16],"tags":[83,313,525],"class_list":["post-8892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-fantasy","category-female","category-paper","category-reread","category-supernatural","tag-carrie-vaughn","tag-vampires","tag-werewolves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2jq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5342,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5342","url_meta":{"origin":8892,"position":0},"title":"Kitty Goes to Washington, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"August 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Kitty Goes to Washington audible version (2006\/2009) Carrie Vaughn narrated by Marguerite Gavin I have the final Kitty book waiting for me to read, so I've been working my way back through the series in audio. 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