{"id":166,"date":"2006-11-13T12:17:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T17:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=166"},"modified":"2006-11-13T12:18:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T17:18:38","slug":"eureka-short-reviews-alleviate-workload-prevent-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Eureka! Short reviews alleviate workload, prevent procrastination."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, remember when Wired asked all those authors to come up with six-word stories<\/a><\/strong>?\u00a0 (I heard about it through Fuse #8<\/a><\/strong>.)\u00a0 Well, the other day I stumbled across a blog called Fussy<\/a><\/strong>, totally by accident.\u00a0 And this blog’s author does five-word book reviews<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 A-ha, I thought.\u00a0 Brilliant!\u00a0 That is something I can do, even with another paper due.\u00a0 And it’s a great way to tell you\u00a0speedy-quick about some of the new picture books I just got in at work last week.\u00a0 But, this being 7ITBB, I have to give it a Seven-Impossible-style twist.\u00a0 So, I bring you (drumroll, please):<\/p>\n

The Seven Word Book Review! ™<\/p>\n

Black? White! Day? Night!<\/a><\/strong> by Laura Vaccaro Seeger<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Giant lift-the-flap* design makes familiar concept cool.<\/p>\n

* Compound words joined with hyphens still only count as one word.\u00a0 ‘Cause I said so.<\/p>\n

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Lucia and the Light<\/a><\/strong> by Phyllis Root<\/a><\/strong>, illustrated by Mary GrandPre<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lavish, sorta-Nordic\u00a0heroine quest , with goofy\u00a0trolls.<\/p>\n

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Do Not Open This Book!<\/a><\/strong> by Michaela Muntean<\/a><\/strong>, illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Remember Grover’s Monster<\/a><\/strong> book?\u00a0 It’s like that.<\/p>\n

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Yoon and the Christmas Mitten<\/a><\/strong> by Helen Recorvits, illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is why schools don’t do Christmas.<\/p>\n

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Welcome, Precious<\/a><\/strong> by Nikki Grimes<\/a><\/strong>, illustrated by Bryan Collier<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Precious, indeed!\u00a0 Illustrations help almost-saccharine text.<\/p>\n

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See?\u00a0 It works!\u00a0 That would have taken me 3 days with my usual novella-length reviews.\u00a0 And it’s a fun challenge, kinda like writing haiku.\u00a0 Although I’m not sure it came across that I did actually like all of these books…\u00a0 What do you think?\u00a0 Will it catch on?\u00a0 Should I send in the patent application now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, remember when Wired asked all those authors to come up with six-word stories?\u00a0 (I heard about it through Fuse #8.)\u00a0 Well, the other day I stumbled across a blog called Fussy, totally by accident.\u00a0 And this blog’s author does five-word book reviews.\u00a0 A-ha, I thought.\u00a0 Brilliant!\u00a0 That is something I can do, even with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}