![]() Still, Camino Island is not among my favorite Grishams. Overall, I enjoyed the fact that this book wasn’t about lawyers and never mentioned tort. It’s no metaphor, I’m sure, just downright cool. The vault in his basement is a dream space, climate-controlled and protective, hidden from the world and where he also goes to hide from the world. ![]() I enjoyed his fervor in searching out the next big score, and even more so his intense care for the prizes he had already collected. I was fascinated by Bruce’s local book store on Camino Island and the subculture of rare book collectors. I truly didn’t care about any of the characters in this book as much as I did the story. With all that in mind, I was a bit annoyed watching this whiney protagonist, Mercer, and her new author-friends-folks entirely reminiscent of random classmates from my creative writing class in college-complain about the sad lives they lead, drink themselves silly at dinner parties, sleep around, and share secrets. That’s the whole point isn’t it, to get one’s name out there? I was an author in a book store, ostensibly signing books! Who cares if no one knew me. Of course, I’m a reasonable person, so I didn’t view that experience as a failure. When I published my third book, I enjoyed a single book-signing event at a local book store, where I met zero “fans” and sold even fewer books. And exciting news for 2020: a sequel, CAMINO WINDS, blew into bookstores. I’m betting that John Grisham’s new novel, CAMINO ISLAND, featuring an enticing beach a few steps away, is probably based on Amelia Island. In this book, Grisham introduced me to a world I’ve admittedly thought about but in which I’ve never had much interest, namely that of the struggling young author.Ī little backstory first. Reads I’d Recommend The Real Camino Island Posted on by Karen Stensgaard Sorry, but I couldn’t resist solving this mystery. The characters in Camino Island are mostly unpleasant, but the story engages. 9 reviews have 1 stars A nice run of words Thats a very nice book seen by my eyes in some long time. The FBI is also involved, but only in a supporting role. As the novel unfolds, the reader finds himself in a touchy-feely cat-and-mouse game with artsy snobs, most of them semi-successful authors. Grisham, whose yearly delivery of a legal thriller is as reliable as the sunrise, had written a little. Once the second chapter rolls around, these thieves are all but ignored and forgotten, as Grisham chases down the story of another, seemingly unrelated character-something he does a few times. John Grisham’s publisher, Doubleday, got a nice surprise last January. ![]() Professional thieves heist a valuable collection of manuscripts but can’t quite figure out how to pawn them off safely and for the greatest return. For my “first second-attempt” with Grisham, however, I can at least report that Camino Island gripped me, and I enjoyed the read.Ĭamino Island begins as a real caper, which I didn’t expect. That’s what first drew me to Clive Cussler. ![]() For a while in college, he was all I read, but then I finally got burned out on reading about burned-out lawyers and their daily grinds, and I needed a bit more spice. This is my first attempt at a John Grisham novel in quite a number of years (not counting his comedy, Skipping Christmas). ![]()
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