The Year of Fog
by Michelle Richmond (Goodreads author!)
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Read in June, 2008
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everyone who enjoys well written novels with realistic and sympathetic characters
This is such a beautifully written and compelling story. I really enjoyed it and I found it difficult when I had to put the book down and do something else.
I loved that I didn’t know how it would end, and I won’t ruin it for those of you who haven’t read it, but the book was suspenseful and emotionally moving from beginning to end.
I live in San Francisco and it is the main setting for the book and, unlike many books that supposedly take place in the city, the author got just about ...more
I loved that I didn’t know how it would end, and I won’t ruin it for those of you who haven’t read it, but the book was suspenseful and emotionally moving from beginning to end.
I live in San Francisco and it is the main setting for the book and, unlike many books that supposedly take place in the city, the author got just about ...more
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Read in April, 2008
The blurb on the front caught my attention: "Highly recommended [for fans of:] authors like Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard."
Well, given my affinity for Jodi books and the fact I read Mitchard's "The Deep End of the Ocean" a few years back and liked it, that was more than enough to cause me to pick up Michelle Richmond's novel.
"The Year of Fog" is reminiscent of Mitchard's book in that it deals with the disappearance of a young child. However, the way th...more
Well, given my affinity for Jodi books and the fact I read Mitchard's "The Deep End of the Ocean" a few years back and liked it, that was more than enough to cause me to pick up Michelle Richmond's novel.
"The Year of Fog" is reminiscent of Mitchard's book in that it deals with the disappearance of a young child. However, the way th...more
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Read in May, 2008
"There is a girl, her name is Emma, she is walking on the beach. I look away. Seconds pass. I look back, and she is gone. I keep thinking about the seconds, the ever-expanding circle. How I set this chain of events in motion. How I must find some way to make amends."
The Year of Fog is the the story of Abby Mason, a 32-year-old photographer who is about to be married. While Jake, her fiancee, is away visiting a friend, Abby takes his 6-year-old daughter, Emma, to the beach... a...more
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Read in April, 2007
A little more than a minute. That's all. Abby didn't look away for more than that, and perhaps it wasn't even that long. But that was all the time it took for her fiance's daughter to disappear into the San Francisco fog.
What happened? Did Emma drown? Or was she kidnapped? Are horrible things happening to her, even as the city turns itself inside out, trying to find her?
Now Abby is guilt-stricken, but she refuses to give up. Long after the police close the search, and her fiance tries to...more
What happened? Did Emma drown? Or was she kidnapped? Are horrible things happening to her, even as the city turns itself inside out, trying to find her?
Now Abby is guilt-stricken, but she refuses to give up. Long after the police close the search, and her fiance tries to...more
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Read in June, 2007
I want to say that this is a "literary summer read." It's also a fall, winter, spring read but since it's August and I did read this partly at the beach, I think of summer. I also read this late at night, in my car at lunchtime, and pretty much wherever & whenever I got the chance. The short 2-3 page chapters were constantly tempting me, "Come on, just read another chapter, you know you want to." And I did.
The story is about the disappearance of a young girl in th...more
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Read in July, 2008
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Read in June, 2008
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I probably won't read this book over and over, but it was worth the initial read. At the heart of the story is the issue of forgiveness. How do you forgive yourself and move on when the loss, or even the possibility of accepting defeat, is terrible? How do you forgive someone who has so horribly wronged you? How do you stop yourself from responding with total despondence? There was more than once I fully expected Abby to commit suicide no matter how many pages were left.
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Excellent premise: walking along the San Francisco shoreline with a 6-yr old little girl....it was foggy.... little girl runs ahead and disappears into the fog...
and now the girl cannot be found.
The book is suspenseful, beautifully written and has an excellent premise. However, as I was really dying to find out what had happened to this little girl, I began to get frustrated because the story did not really move forward. The meat of the book was about the thoughts in the protagonist's head....more
and now the girl cannot be found.
The book is suspenseful, beautifully written and has an excellent premise. However, as I was really dying to find out what had happened to this little girl, I began to get frustrated because the story did not really move forward. The meat of the book was about the thoughts in the protagonist's head....more
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Read in July, 2008
A terrifying scenario. You lose a child. What if it's your fiance's six-year old daughter and you've lost her through three second's inattention on a foggy morning at the ocean, while your fiance is out of town?
Your fiance's life is ruined and so is yours. And what happened to the child?
I read 'The Year of Fog' as fast as I could. That wasn't fast enough---I skipped to the end to see what happened. You are a mature person who would never do such a thing. Still, it's a testament to the book's...more
Your fiance's life is ruined and so is yours. And what happened to the child?
I read 'The Year of Fog' as fast as I could. That wasn't fast enough---I skipped to the end to see what happened. You are a mature person who would never do such a thing. Still, it's a testament to the book's...more
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Read in April, 2008
This was a difficult book to read and a difficult book to put down. A mother's worst fear is loosing a child...not knowing where they are or what is happening to them. Kidnappings are devistating. In pursuit of educating my kids on the real dangers of kidnapping, I may have over-exposed them to the tragic stories in the news these past few years. I have this urgency for them to "understand" that abduction is real, to be careful, to scream.
Richmond like to use a lot of prose whi...more
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Read in September, 2008
"There is a girl, her name is Emma, she is walking on the beach. I look away. Seconds pass. I look back, and she is gone."
Every parent's nightmare come true. Except Abby isn't Emma's mom, but her dad's fiancee. Told in the first person, we live inside Abby's search for Emma, her obsession with finding Emma, driven by her guilt at having looked away at the critical moment. Their lives are broken and reshaped over the coming year.
It's a mystery story, told intimately from the i...more
Every parent's nightmare come true. Except Abby isn't Emma's mom, but her dad's fiancee. Told in the first person, we live inside Abby's search for Emma, her obsession with finding Emma, driven by her guilt at having looked away at the critical moment. Their lives are broken and reshaped over the coming year.
It's a mystery story, told intimately from the i...more
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Read in July, 2008
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This is a book I found hard to get into because of the subject. A woman looses her focus for 1 minute and a child in her care disappears. That is my worst nightmare, and a topic that I wish I could stay blissfully ignorant of.
I began reading it because of the amount of comments
I have heard about it, and then stayed with it because it ended up being more than the mystery of a lost child.
The book also carries the background story of Abbey's childhood. So the story becomes about forgiveness,...more
I began reading it because of the amount of comments
I have heard about it, and then stayed with it because it ended up being more than the mystery of a lost child.
The book also carries the background story of Abbey's childhood. So the story becomes about forgiveness,...more
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Read in August, 2008
The story is (basically) that the main character (for lack of a better word) loses her fiance's 6 year old girl. The blurb on the cover talks about her "unwavering faith in the power of love" and the "wonderous workings of the human heart". It sounded like an interesting story... it was not at all what I expected.
The author takes you into the mind of the step-mother-to-be and into all of the crazy ramblings that go on in one's head when someone is lost: the horrible thing...more
The author takes you into the mind of the step-mother-to-be and into all of the crazy ramblings that go on in one's head when someone is lost: the horrible thing...more
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Read in April, 2008
This book was given to me by a coworker. It is the story of a woman, Abby, who is walking on Ocean Beach in California with Emma, her fiance's daughter. Emma pulls her hand from Abby's and goes ahead, and in a few seconds of distraction on Abby's part, disappears from sight. The rest of the book is the engrossing story of the search for Emma and how life changes for Abby as a result. The book was very descriptive and detailed. Although it takes place mostly in California, Abby is from Alaba...more
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Read in August, 2007
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The year of Fog starts with a BIG, and risky I might add, plot move. After that, the plot slows and character is at the forefront for nearly 100 pages before plot makes another appearance. This is another risk, but for me, Richmond pulled it off. When reading this novel, I kept thinking, "she had to storyboard this." I could visualize her post-it notes, so many under plot at the beginning that she had to devote time to character. I swear I heard her say at page 105 of her draft, &...more
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Read in October, 2008
Reading this book taught me about memory- not exactly what I wanted. I think the first few pages were good, that's when the daughter Emma first disappeared. Then it was really boring and repetitive until she actually starts to do something besides looking in the same places everyday in the same city (even the dumbest kidnapper wouldn't do that). Around chapter 66 it starts to pick up when she starts a search abroad. The ending is not what I would have wanted. It was actually a really sad en...more
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