50 in '15: #10
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sakon76Title: A Circus Without Elephants
Author: Maralys Wills
Length: 274 pages
Maralys is the teacher of the writing class I've been taking for a couple years now at the community college down the street. And over the years I've ended up with copies of a few of her books, either by giveaway on her part, or by purchase on the part of her two writing books. And since I'm now on the exercise bike for half an hour a day, five days a week, while the Squiddle naps, I'm starting to go through my Mt. Toberead.
This is the second of her (to date) four memoir books. The cover text more or less promises the madcap adventures of a family of six kids and two parents.
It took until page 204 before I found a laugh.
I don't know if it's that I've heard so many of these stories in class, or that her writing style ten years ago wasn't as polished, or... I dunno. But I just didn't find this very compelling. Sorry, Maralys. The book felt disjointed, and as much as she rags on me in class about "who is this character? remind us.", in here she was introducing people without telling us who they were. She told rather than showed, and for all that my classmates who write their memoirs get told to put things in scenes, herein Maralys doesn't follow her own advice.
Verdict: Not Recommended.
Author: Maralys Wills
Length: 274 pages
Maralys is the teacher of the writing class I've been taking for a couple years now at the community college down the street. And over the years I've ended up with copies of a few of her books, either by giveaway on her part, or by purchase on the part of her two writing books. And since I'm now on the exercise bike for half an hour a day, five days a week, while the Squiddle naps, I'm starting to go through my Mt. Toberead.
This is the second of her (to date) four memoir books. The cover text more or less promises the madcap adventures of a family of six kids and two parents.
It took until page 204 before I found a laugh.
I don't know if it's that I've heard so many of these stories in class, or that her writing style ten years ago wasn't as polished, or... I dunno. But I just didn't find this very compelling. Sorry, Maralys. The book felt disjointed, and as much as she rags on me in class about "who is this character? remind us.", in here she was introducing people without telling us who they were. She told rather than showed, and for all that my classmates who write their memoirs get told to put things in scenes, herein Maralys doesn't follow her own advice.
Verdict: Not Recommended.
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Date: 2015-03-04 03:01 am (UTC)