{"id":2038,"date":"2016-10-14T20:34:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T02:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2016-11-05T20:41:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T02:41:37","slug":"the-english-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2038","title":{"rendered":"The English Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Daniel Silva, audiobook read by George Guidall, 2013, Harper-Collins Publishers<\/p>\n<p>This book was just plain terrible.\u00c2\u00a0 I was really disappointed because I had listened to another book by Silva that I really liked.\u00c2\u00a0 This one had a bit of a plot, but there was a voluminous amount of rehashing information from his other books.\u00c2\u00a0 Whenever a character was introduced, Silva spent an inordinate amount of time going over that character&#8217;s past history and episodes.\u00c2\u00a0 I kept wondering when he was going to tell me about what was going on in this book!<\/p>\n<p>I can usually hang on to the bitter end, which is what I did with this book.\u00c2\u00a0 When the end of the book came, I felt myself breathing a huge sigh of relief.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-1-5.gif\" alt=\"1 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Daniel Silva, audiobook read by George Guidall, 2013, Harper-Collins Publishers This book was just plain terrible.\u00c2\u00a0 I was really disappointed because I had listened to another book by Silva that I really liked.\u00c2\u00a0 This one had a bit of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2038\"><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-2038","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\/2038","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=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}