Angie’s Comments (group member since Jun 30, 2011)

Angie’s comments from the Topeka & Shawnee Co. Public Library group.

I am currently reading Bonnie Jo Campbell’s Once Upon a River, about a sixteen-year-old girl , Margo, who sets off by boat on the Stark River in search of her mother, after an act of violence disrupts her family. This novel expands on one of my favorite stories in Campbell’s collection American Salvage, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 2009. (The story is “Family Reunion”). Margo is a fascinating character, a strong, independent young woman who admires Annie Oakley and is most at home on the river.

I have also just begun listening to the audiobook of Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman, a Norwegian crime novel about a string of disappearing women. A creepy snowman found at the scene of the latest disappearance may connect them. I’m not very far along in this one, but the cold, snowy setting makes a nice juxtaposition on these very hot days.

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