{"id":2192,"date":"2018-05-18T12:15:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T18:30:22","slug":"life-after-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"Life After Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kate Atkinson, Audiobook narrated by Fennela Woolgar, 2013, Hachette Audio<\/p>\n

This book is based on an interesting idea: What if a person died but came back to life to live another life based on different choices made?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s as if a person has nine lives like a cat but, instead of resuming after dying as if nothing had happened, this person rewinds to a point when an alternative choice was made.\u00c2\u00a0 These different choices could be made either by the individual or others that have had impacts on the life that would eventually would be lived.<\/p>\n

While the idea is interesting, the execution in this book is not good.\u00c2\u00a0 Because some of the lives were similar, there was a great deal of redundancy.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems as if the main character died multiple times in the bombing of London under similar circumstances.\u00c2\u00a0 Because the book jumped back each time and essentially started over, it was a bit confusing to follow.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, there was a lot of detail and dialogue in each of the stories that was not essential and really boring.\u00c2\u00a0 It got to the point where I found myself saying “Not Again!” each time she died and the book rewound.<\/p>\n

Bottom line, this book had an interesting theme that was beaten to death (multiple times).\"1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Kate Atkinson, Audiobook narrated by Fennela Woolgar, 2013, Hachette Audio This book is based on an interesting idea: What if a person died but came back to life to live another life based on different choices made?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s as …<\/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],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2192","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\/2192","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=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}