{"id":2141,"date":"2017-12-22T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2017-12-22T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T01:14:00","slug":"south-of-broad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2141","title":{"rendered":"South of Broad"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Pat Conroy, 2009, Random House, New York<\/p>\n

This is an interesting book about a person growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, and his relationships with other individuals in his life.\u00c2\u00a0 It is well-written and provides a sense of living in Charleston.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the passages in the book are actually quite beautiful.<\/p>\n

The plot provides a measure of suspense as there is an individual who is intent on killing the main character and all of his friends.<\/p>\n

The characters in the novel are interesting, but, with the exception of the main character, tend to be a bit one-dimensional.\u00c2\u00a0 The depression, verging on insanity at times, gives the main character some added depth which doesn’t seem to be present in some the others.\u00c2\u00a0 The story is told in first-person which allows the reader to become much closer to him.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed reading this book very much, and, while it may not be an all-time great literary accomplishment, this enjoyment allowed my to rate the book quite high. \"4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Pat Conroy, 2009, Random House, New York This is an interesting book about a person growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, and his relationships with other individuals in his life.\u00c2\u00a0 It is well-written and provides a sense of living …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[5,14],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}