{"id":2106,"date":"2017-08-09T10:34:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T16:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2017-08-09T11:03:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T17:03:27","slug":"call-me-madame-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2106","title":{"rendered":"Call Me Madame Alice"},"content":{"rendered":"

by K. W. Garlick, 2016, Stillwater River Publications, Chepachet, RI<\/p>\n

I was given this book to read by a friend and it looked interesting as some of the story was set in Jamestown and Prudence Islands in Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

Alas, the book, did not meet my expectations.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though the book was self published, it clamed to have an editor and co-editor at the end.\u00c2\u00a0 The book is rife with sentences that were missing verbs, the wrong tense, and poor punctuation.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, while the idea behind the book was interesting (linking a conspiracy associated with the loss of the Titanic<\/em> to the aftermath of the 1938 hurricane in Rhode Island), the book failed in many other aspects.\u00c2\u00a0 The dialogue was extremely stilted and every character spoke exactly like all the other characters.\u00c2\u00a0 It was\u00c2\u00a0impossible to differentiate between the high-ranking naval officer who was head of the family and the housemaid\/caregiver who grew up in Haiti.\u00c2\u00a0 The story seemed to drag in places as the characters repeated information over and over that was previously disclosed.<\/p>\n

I generally don’t like to disparage writing efforts that are self-published as they probably shouldn’t be held to the same standard as books published by publishing houses, but I have read some fairly good books that are self-published and some pretty bad books published normally.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though this one is self-published and was lent to me by a friend, it is\u00c2\u00a0just too bad to give it a pass.\"1.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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