I don’t like it when a book gives me a reading assignment. \u00a0Winger is not a short book and in part two I encountered this footnote:<\/p>\n
Okay. If you haven’t read\u00a0A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court<\/em>, you should. \u00a0Because it is fucking hilarious, and there’s no way you’d understand “Hello, Central” unless you read the book.<\/p>\n And of course I have not read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. \u00a0I’ve seen a few adaptations of it. \u00a0Did not get the reference. \u00a0So I tried to appeal to the great author Andrew Smith himself via twitter:<\/p>\n @marburyjack<\/a> Do I need to interrupt Winger to read a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court?<\/p>\n \u2014 David Yenoki (@davidshead) July 20, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And as of this post I have not received a notification that I can wait until after finishing Winger to read A Connecticut Yankee so here I am, shifting through a Project Gutenberg ePub of Mark Twain’s classic that isn’t Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn. (I realize he is also remembered for the Prince and the Pauper which like Connecticut Yankee I have not read).<\/p>\n *sigh* and I think I’m only 9% done with Connecticut Yankee. \u00a0If Andrew Smith has embedded more literary references it may take a while before I finish with Winger and I was hoping to be ready for the next time I see him…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t like it when a book gives me a reading assignment. \u00a0Winger is not a short book and in part two I encountered this footnote: Okay. If you haven’t read\u00a0A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, you should. \u00a0Because it is fucking hilarious, and there’s no way you’d understand “Hello, Central” unless you read … Continue reading “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and Winger”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[38,99,52,53],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-andrew-smith","tag-books","tag-mark-twain","tag-winger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidyenoki.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}