{"id":25051,"date":"2019-09-17T13:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25051"},"modified":"2019-09-16T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:24:33","slug":"book-report-seven-dwarfs-and-some-odd-tales-by-isaac-crawford-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/17\/book-report-seven-dwarfs-and-some-odd-tales-by-isaac-crawford-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Seven Dwarfs and Some Odd Tales<\/i> by Isaac Crawford (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/sevendwarfs.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I got this book at <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/18\/good-book-hunting-saturday-august-17-2019-librarycon-2019\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LibraryCon 2019<\/a>.  The author\/artist had a couple of regular, staple-stitched comics that I bought as well as this collection which has a flat spine and hence gets counted as a graphic novel and eligible for my annual reading list and an official MfBJN book report.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a collection of stories that take on stuff from the Brothers Grimm (or at least popular representations thereof) and nursery rhymes and given a darker (although not necessarily as dark as the Brothers Grimm) turn, often featuring lycanthropy as the pivot.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting book.  The art is black and white and not too busy.  The art and story are well balanced&#8211;it&#8217;s not a story ins service of the art, but the art serves the story.  So pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>I liked it better, strangely enough, than his individual comics.  One of the series I read, Musical Mishaps of Cat and Fiddle, stretches a story similar in feel (and featuring a form of lycanthrophy as well), into six issues which lends itself to creating more panels for the story which unbalances it a bit.<\/p>\n<p>So perhaps I&#8217;m learning a little about the balance I prefer, and this book has it.  For what it&#8217;s worth.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;ll watch for more from this guy at future conventions.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this book at LibraryCon 2019. The author\/artist had a couple of regular, staple-stitched comics that I bought as well as this collection which has a flat spine and hence gets counted as a graphic novel and eligible for my annual reading list and an official MfBJN book report. This book is a collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25052,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051\/revisions\/25052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}