![]() ![]() Coming from Grisham, I think budding authors should pay attention. I especially enjoyed one part where the bookstore owner offered his sage advice for debut authors, and here are a few of the tips that I can now recall and tend to agree with: Keep your first book under 300 pages, skip the prologue, keep the beginning narrative linear, and don't introduce too many characters in the first chapter. I was almost thinking 5 stars but then a silly fling and a weak ending nixed it. Things then move along at a pretty good clip. The hope is she can ascertain if he has the manuscripts so the feds can move in and retrieve them. Struggling young author Mercer Mann is approached by a mysterious woman to move back to the island home she left many years ago following her grandmother's death, and to get to know the bookstore owner and other writers who live on the island. ![]() In Camino Island by John Grisham, aspiring writer Mercer Mann struggled with morality issues when she was asked to help catch a man accused of having purchased five handwritten manuscripts by F. Scott Fitzgerald's original manuscripts are stolen from Purdue's library, and it's suspected that one of them at least has ended up in a thriving bookstore on Camino Island. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Grisham, John. This book had so much to pull me in, most of it about books and authors. (And the other two books I'm reading right now appear to be above par for me as well, so hopefully, slump over - ?!?! □) I know I said audiobooks have kept me in the groove, but John Grisham and Camino Island went above and beyond here. At all times I am reading an audiobook, a regular book, and an ebook. I've had trouble focusing on books, but audiobooks usually keep me going. In one of my book groups just now many of us have been feeling a bit in a book reading rut or slump lately, me included.
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