Cecelia Ahern wrote One Hundred Names, a book chosen by my book club for the month of July. You know how some books have threads that tie the characters or the events together? The threads in this book are so fine you could blow them away with your breath. In this story a young journalist, Kitty, who lives in Ireland, made a huge error and ruined a man's life with false information. Kitty is not a careful person. Frankly she is not a nice person. Her ethics seem to be completely absent. She has a mentor who, on her death bed, gives her a list of one hundred names. Kitty is supposed to find out what the connection is. We hear the stories of six people in great detail. Some are more interesting than others. What I think happened is that the author had six short stories and threw them together into a book and tried to make it work. Other people in my book club agree because we never hear about 100 people, there is no connection between the six people we do hear about and for what other reason go into so much detail on the six? I would have preferred to read six short stories.
No comments:
Post a Comment