{"id":4222,"date":"2026-10-16T20:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2026-10-16T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:08:07","slug":"land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=4222","title":{"rendered":"Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Maggie O&#8217;Farrell, 2026, Audiobook narrated by Dane Wyte O&#8217;Hara, Random House Audio <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a very well written book about a family in Ireland during and after the great famine.  It chronicles the loss of the Irish due to famine, the oppression of the British, and how some managed to survive.  I thought the characters were compelling and O&#8217;Farrell&#8217;s storytelling is quite good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t rate it higher because it was hard to follow in the beginning with multiple flashbacks and flashforwards.  I sometimes couldn&#8217;t tell whether I was dealing with the son or father&#8217;s childhood.  Also, even though the book was very well written, the story about the family didn&#8217;t interest me all that much.  I did like the sense of place that the author created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dane Wyte O&#8217;Hara&#8217;s narration is excellent.  He definitely creates the right tone for the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Maggie O&#8217;Farrell, 2026, Audiobook narrated by Dane Wyte O&#8217;Hara, Random House Audio This is a very well written book about a family in Ireland during and after the great famine. It chronicles the loss of the Irish due to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=4222\"><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-4222","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\/4222","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=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}