{"id":475,"date":"2006-12-28T19:33:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T19:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=475"},"modified":"2024-02-23T21:17:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T02:17:05","slug":"duane_104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/12\/duane_104\/","title":{"rendered":"Duane, Diane: (104) <cite>A Wizard Abroad<\/cite> (audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never booklogged <strong>Diane Duane&#8217;s <cite>A Wizard Abroad<\/cite><\/strong>, so I might as well say something briefly about it after listening to the audiobook.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth book in the series, in which Nita goes to Ireland. It&#8217;s something of an interlude between the first three books and the continuing developments that start in the next, and has always felt somewhat to me like an excuse to write about Ireland, where the author moved a few years before this book was published. It&#8217;s not a <em>bad<\/em> book (at least not to this non-Irish person whose culture and history aren&#8217;t being appropriated left and right), but it is a letdown after <cite>High Wizardry<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the audiobook, Christina Moore, as always, does a very nice job narrating. In particular, she manages the Irish accents well&mdash;or, at least, as they&#8217;re described in the text, which specifies numerous regional differences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never booklogged Diane Duane&#8217;s A Wizard Abroad, so I might as well say something briefly about it after listening to the audiobook. This is the fourth book in the series, in which Nita goes to Ireland. It&#8217;s something of an interlude between the first three books and the continuing developments that start in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/12\/duane_104\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Duane, Diane: (104) <cite>A Wizard Abroad<\/cite> (audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,118,37],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-single-narrator-audio","category-young-wizards","tag-duane-diane"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2850,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/2850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}