{"id":3599,"date":"2024-06-09T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2024-06-09T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:26:59","slug":"from-the-low-and-quiet-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3599","title":{"rendered":"From the Low and Quiet Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Donal Ryan, 2018, Kindle Edition, Penguin Books <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"2.5 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book starts with the story of a young doctor trying to escape Syria with his family.  It then leaves him and shifts to a young man in Ireland who is having a tough time with his family, his job, and his girlfriend who dumps him.  It then shifts to another individual, a man who starts cheating on his wife.  Each of these stories is left unfinished as it shifts from one to the other. I initially thought that the book was a collection of unrelated short stories, like <em>The Dubliners<\/em>, by James Joyce which I had just finished.  I read the book until the last chapter and wasn&#8217;t going to finish it until I discovered that the last chapter tied together all the individuals in the previous chapters.  They became related to each other though circumstances that none of them could have foreseen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last chapter redeemed the book, but I didn&#8217;t care for the language used in some of the previous chapters. I know that some of these characters would have used such language in real life, but the constant use of it is disgusting in my opinion. I would have enjoyed it more without so much of it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Donal Ryan, 2018, Kindle Edition, Penguin Books This book starts with the story of a young doctor trying to escape Syria with his family. It then leaves him and shifts to a young man in Ireland who is having <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3599\"><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-3599","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\/3599","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=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3600,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions\/3600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}