{"id":2639,"date":"2020-10-18T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2022-04-09T11:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T17:07:17","slug":"my-grandmother-asked-me-to-tell-you-shes-sorry-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2639","title":{"rendered":"My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Fredrik Backman, 2015, Narrated by Joan Walker, Simon and Schuster Audio<\/p>\n

This is a story about a girl whose grandmother dies from cancer.  She was very close to her grandmother but didn’t know a lot about her grandmother’s early years.  She then finds that her grandmother has left apology notes with various individuals.<\/p>\n

The author does a nice job with the characters and the dialogue in this novel, but the plot didn’t have enough substance to hold my interest. It’s a nice story, but a little boring.<\/p>\n

The narrator is excellent but she sometimes dropped her voice so low that she was hard to understand.  When I turned the volume up to hear and she returned to her normal voice, I then had to turn it back down.  This situation was perhaps exacerbated because we listened to it in a car travelling 75 miles per hour. \"3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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