Shannon Olson
Autore di Welcome to My Planet: Where English Is Sometimes Spoken
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Shannon Olson, whose debut novel was Welcome to My Planet, has taught creative writing at the University of Minnesota and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota
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Children of God Go Bowling di Shannon Olson
Felt like quick, amusing reading through most of it, which is a good set up for the end. It gets better the more I think about it.
I read Shannons first book, Welcome to My Planet a while back and I thought this would be similar- which I guess it was, although not quite as funny. After a while it was hard to finish- boring in spots. She could have condensed it down to about 100 pages.
29-year old Shanny grew up watching the "Love Boat" on tv and believed that her life would be as neatly accomplished as the one hour show. She has spent the better part of 4 years in therapy trying to find out why her life is not so perfect. Unable to fully commit to her boyfirend Michael, her dull job, graduate school or her thesis, Shanny spends an inordinate amount of time whinig to her mother, whom she has always called 'Flo', and not making any solid decisions about a direction for her life. Maybe this was supposed to the the American version of "Bridget Jones" but it fell rather flat for me. Shanny can be very funny at times but she never seems to take anything very seriously. I am really not sure what made her so dissatisfied with her life.… (altro)
There were so many things I could have quoted about this book. So many situations thoughts and feelings I share with the author.
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