I enjoy Stewart O'Nan's writing style. He has a unique ability making the reader want to look into the window he has created of an ordinary person's life and thoughts.Emily is a elderly widow who is detached from her children and grandchildren and has outlived her husband most of her friends. S...
Kim Larsen was an ordinary teenager, she had just graduated high school and was living her last ordinary summer before leaving for college. She slept late, spent time with her sister, went swimming with her friends, and made plans to meet up with them again later after her work shift. And then ...
I can understand some of the bad reviews. If you are expecting a mystery or thriller you will be disappointed. If you can't stand not having answers you will be left frustrated. This book is actually a drama about not so much the missing girl but her family and friends and how they deal with t...
There are times you don’t like something, but can’t really put your finger on the reason. Take Mexican food. No matter how well it is prepared, how fresh the ingredients, or how wonderful the recipe, it’s all pretty average to me. You can place before me the finest Mexican feast in all the land, ...
I am O'Nan fan through and through. After reading "Last Night at the Lobster," I knew I would read anything he wrote. Warning: this is a big fat book in which almost nothing happens. A lot of readers will put it down when it becomes clear that the plot is little more than what happens when a fami...
This is the second novel I've read by Stewart O'Nan, after Last Night at the Lobster. While I enjoyed Lobster," it really is a trifle compared to Snow Angels, which is an immensely quiet, powerful book. Essentially, it tells the story of two relationships, both disintegrating, set against the bac...
THE SPEED QUEEN! I don't know why, but for some reason before reading this I thought it was going to be about racing, like NASCAR or something. Thank god it wasn't. Instead it was about Speed, i.e. crystal meth!! YAY! In particular, it was about a woman on death row in Oklahoma, who was nick...