{"id":518,"date":"2004-08-06T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T19:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T18:52:57","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T22:52:57","slug":"kyaaaaaaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/kyaaaaaaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyaaaaaaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2004\/08\/mirrormask-stuff-mostly.asp\">Neil Gaiman&#8217;s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<table border=1 align=center width=80%>\n<tr>\n<td><b>You have yet to write another word on &#8220;Conrad&#8217;s Fate&#8221;. Though, considering the book won&#8217;t be available before late February (April in the U.S.A., if Amazon is to be believed), anything you WILL write about the book before then will be mostly gloating. Please have more consideration for Diana Wynne Jones fans who read your blog &#8211; of whom there are several &#8211; who are in danger of being consumed by their own envy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s a Chrestomanci novel. It stars a fifteen-year old Christopher Chant, and is told by Conrad, who is rather depressed about his fate. It&#8217;s funny, scary, supremely twisty, and the quintessence of what a Chrestomanci novel ought to be. (I think it&#8217;s about as good as Charmed Life and The Nine Lives of Christopher Chant and rather better than The Magicians of Caprona. Your mileage may vary.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seen in Neil Gaiman&#8217;s blog: You have yet to write another word on &#8220;Conrad&#8217;s Fate&#8221;. Though, considering the book won&#8217;t be available before late February (April in the U.S.A., if Amazon is to be believed), anything you WILL write about the book before then will be mostly gloating. Please have more consideration for Diana Wynne [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}