{"id":1671,"date":"2014-12-29T19:47:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T01:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2015-03-24T19:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T01:05:17","slug":"fall-on-your-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"Fall on Your Knees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Ann-Marie MacDonald, 1996, Touchstone Books, New York<\/p>\n<p>This book had great potential as it was set in a remote town in Nova Scotia at the beginning of the twentieth century.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an area about which I have no knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The story is about a young man who elopes with a very young girl and then fathers two girls.\u00c2\u00a0 The two girls couldn&#8217;t be any more different in personality and talent.\u00c2\u00a0 What transpires after that I will leave to other readers.<\/p>\n<p>The author&#8217;s writing style is extremely good, but she quickly wanders into &#8220;Oprah Land&#8221; as the family members become weirder and weirder.\u00c2\u00a0 The plot line never quite comes together.\u00c2\u00a0 After I put the book down, I thought to myself that the characters never really had an impact on me.\u00c2\u00a0 For this reason I have a much lower opinion of the book than I would otherwise. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"2 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ann-Marie MacDonald, 1996, Touchstone Books, New York This book had great potential as it was set in a remote town in Nova Scotia at the beginning of the twentieth century.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an area about which I have no <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1671\"><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-1671","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\/1671","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=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}