{"id":276,"date":"2007-12-30T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T01:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/12\/30\/good-books-good-questions\/"},"modified":"2007-12-30T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T01:24:12","slug":"good-books-good-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Good Books; Good Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All books leave readers with questions; a good book leaves us with <em>good <\/em>questions.\u00c2\u00a0 Asking <em>ourselves <\/em>if Dumbledore ever found love (or what might have happened if Stanley Yelnats had not found the sneakers, or whether Harriet M. Welsch ever found culinary pleasures beyond tomato sandwiches) is how we give a book life within our imaginations, make it our own.\u00c2\u00a0 Like Philip Pullman&#8217;s subtle knife, those questions open the fabric between the writer&#8217;s universe and our own.<\/p>\n<p>Pullman has been facing some questions of his own&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 Pullman&#8217;s His Dark Materials presents a magnificent panoply of inquiries &#8212; about God, &#8220;Dust,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0and the human imagination.\u00c2\u00a0 Is the trilogy a challenge to the Church?\u00c2\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00c2\u00a0 But mostly it is a challenge to any readers or pundits who expect a book &#8212; or its author &#8212; to do their thinking for them&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a writer&#8217;s privilege or responsibility to tell you how to read her or his book.\u00c2\u00a0 Talk is cheap, but print, still, is more or less forever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Roger Sutton, Editorial, <em>The Horn Book Magazine, <\/em>January\/February 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All books leave readers with questions; a good book leaves us with good questions.\u00c2\u00a0 Asking ourselves if Dumbledore ever found love (or what might have happened if Stanley Yelnats had not found the sneakers, or whether Harriet M. Welsch ever found culinary pleasures beyond tomato sandwiches) is how we give a book life within our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-children-and-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}