{"id":2656,"date":"2020-11-23T08:49:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2020-11-23T08:49:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:49:19","slug":"camino-island-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2656","title":{"rendered":"Camino Island: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by John Grisham, 2017, Audiobook narrated by January LaVoy, Random House Audio<\/p>\n<p>This is an enjoyable novel about some of F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s original manuscripts of his novels that are stolen from the Princeton University Library.\u00c2\u00a0 They eventually end up at a book dealer&#8217;s in Camino Island which is located near Jacksonville, FL.\u00c2\u00a0 The ensuing effort to recover the novel from the dealer is the focus of the novel.<\/p>\n<p>The characters are enjoyable, if somewhat overblown.\u00c2\u00a0 The narration is good and overall the plot hangs together.\u00c2\u00a0 The only downside is that there doesn&#8217;t seem to be enough suspense or &#8220;hook&#8221; in the plot.\u00c2\u00a0 The outcome seems pretty ho-hum.\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"2 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Grisham, 2017, Audiobook narrated by January LaVoy, Random House Audio This is an enjoyable novel about some of F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s original manuscripts of his novels that are stolen from the Princeton University Library.\u00c2\u00a0 They eventually end up <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2656\"><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-2656","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\/2656","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=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}