{"id":1650,"date":"2014-10-24T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T00:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2015-03-24T19:06:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T01:06:47","slug":"the-castaways-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"The Castaways: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Elin Hilderbrand, Audiobook 2009, Read by Katie Hale, Hatchett Audio<\/p>\n<p>We got this book from the Narragansett Library and listened to it on the way down from Rhode Island to Florida this year.\u00c2\u00a0 We ordinarily drive two cars but this year we drove only the one so both of us listened to it.<\/p>\n<p>I picked this selection as it looked interesting with the plot surrounding a death on a boat near Nantucket Island.\u00c2\u00a0 I was expecting a good murder mystery.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead we got a bunch of stuff about three couples and their relationships over the years.\u00c2\u00a0 There were multiple flashback passages that revisited the past history of the relationships such as how they came to be friends, etc.<\/p>\n<p>All of the three couples were somewhat dysfunctional and, at times, not very likable.<\/p>\n<p>The book is probably best summed up as something that should have been avoided as it was not only boring, but, at times, very annoying.\u00c2\u00a0 All in all, very painful. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"1 1\/2 Stars stars\" src=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-1-5.gif\" alt=\"1 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Elin Hilderbrand, Audiobook 2009, Read by Katie Hale, Hatchett Audio We got this book from the Narragansett Library and listened to it on the way down from Rhode Island to Florida this year.\u00c2\u00a0 We ordinarily drive two cars but <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1650\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}