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gmw · 08-17-2018, 10:19 AM

I think "forgotten story" is quite appropriate, it just struck me as an odd juxtaposition: "forgotten story" title over a brief description of people remembering it every year. (This is just one of several things about this book that make me think it could have done with a much better editor - or the author paying more attention to their editor, as the case may be.)

I had heard of the disaster before, most recently through reading the John Irving's Until I find You; Irving provides quite a good summary of the event considering the relatively small part of the book that talks of it.

08-17-2018, 10:19 AM	#37
gmw cacoethes scribendi Posts: 5,818 Karma: 137770742 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura One & H2Ov2, Sony PRS-650	I think "forgotten story" is quite appropriate, it just struck me as an odd juxtaposition: "forgotten story" title over a brief description of people remembering it every year. (This is just one of several things about this book that make me think it could have done with a much better editor - or the author paying more attention to their editor, as the case may be.) I had heard of the disaster before, most recently through reading the John Irving's Until I find You; Irving provides quite a good summary of the event considering the relatively small part of the book that talks of it.