{"id":2786,"date":"2021-10-06T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2021-08-19T21:25:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T03:25:52","slug":"book-augie-and-the-green-knight-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/06\/book-augie-and-the-green-knight-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Augie and the Green Knight (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AugieAugie and the Green Knight
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2014
\nAuthor: Zach Weinersmith
\nLength: 219 pages<\/p>\n

While I\u2019m slowly getting into the deep and thorough lore of the Arthurian legend, one story that seems to be popular in the cultural zeitgeist is the one about the Green Knight. I haven\u2019t seen the recent The Green Knight<\/em> (2021) movie adaptation yet, but I\u2019m definitely aware of its overarching story due to the middle-grade book Augie and the Green Knight<\/em>. It\u2019s clear from some of the review snippets I\u2019ve seen for the movie that the logic of the tale doesn\u2019t hold up to today\u2019s standards, an issue that Augie and the Green Knight<\/em> thoroughly explores.<\/p>\n

This book follows Augie, a precocious girl who is definitely smarter than her years\u2014even at the cost of the credulity of the story. When she finds herself transported into the mythical world of the Green Knight, she is unfazed by the peculiar world. The plot unfolds as it always does in this story, except that Augie tries to use logic to help save Sir Gawain. The progression of the \u201crules\u201d that Augie puts in place to create a civilized society gets some pushback from the Green Knight, who has a logic all his own, often to comedic effect.<\/p>\n

As a middle-grade book, Augie and the Green Knight<\/em> is a fairly easy read. However, it still contains a few extremely complicated logic puzzles that even adults might have trouble comprehending. The illustrations contained in this book are top-notch and definitely capture the essence of these characters. Still, the common failings of this genre are present in this book, including bathroom humor and a few too many self-aware winks at the parents who are likely reading this to their children. Overall, though, Augie and the Green Knight<\/em> is a cute take on an inherently violent legend.<\/p>\n

An attempt to fix the logic of the Green Knight legend, I give Augie and the Green Knight<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" \"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" \"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" 1\/2<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Augie and the Green Knight Year: 2014 Author: Zach Weinersmith Length: 219 pages While I\u2019m slowly getting into the deep and thorough lore of the Arthurian legend, one story that seems to be popular in the cultural zeitgeist is the one about the Green Knight. I haven\u2019t seen the recent The Green Knight (2021) movie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,54],"tags":[26,2826,2824,55,2827,1403,8,2825,2395],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-book","tag-26","tag-arthurian-legend","tag-augie-and-the-green-knight","tag-book","tag-logic","tag-middle-grade","tag-review","tag-the-green-knight","tag-zach-weinersmith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}