Ann Packer
Ann Packer is the acclaimed author of two collections of short fiction, Swim Back to Me and Mendocino and Other Stories, and two bestselling novels, Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen's Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award, among many other prizes and honors. Her short...
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Ann Packer is the acclaimed author of two collections of short fiction, Swim Back to Me and Mendocino and Other Stories, and two bestselling novels, Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen's Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award, among many other prizes and honors. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies, and her novels have been published around the world. Her latest book, The Children's Crusade, will be published in April 2015. She lives in San Carlos, California.
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Birth date: January 01, 1959
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Wow, I have got to get some mindless summer beach reads, because everything I’ve read lately has been thought-provoking and kind of deep, and I am getting tired! But still. This book has about a 3.5 average after thousands of reviews, and I am torn, because at times I just loved it, and at other tim...
The Children’s Crusade: A Novel, Ann Packer, narrated by Cotter Smith with Santino Fontana, Marin Ireland, Thomas Sadoski, and Frederick Weller. Over a period of about five decades, the reader is taken into the lives of the Blair family. Dr. Bill Blair returned from the Korean War wanting to forget...
While beautifully written with fascinating characters, Ann Packer's latest novel seems to be missing something. Read my review of this novel here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2015/04/17/odd-one-out/
I wish I could say that I loved this book. I did in the beginning, but the more I read, the more depressed I got. I'm sure book clubs will love this one as there are a lot of character flaws in every single member of this dysfunctional family, especially the mother. It was not a horrible book and th...
I so much wanted to like this book. It takes place just a few miles from where I live, deals with daughters in high school, I was completely ready to fall in love with this book. But, I found the characters whiny and could not relate to the emotional swings or depression that swamped both the teen...
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