by Michelle Richmond
Good read, but kind of sad.
Each year, a book is chosen for Silicon Valley Reads. Organizations, from book stores to libraries have events around this book and the author goes to different venues to perform readings and answer questions. The 2011 selection is The Year of Fog, by Michelle Richmond, a local San Francisco autho...
This is a good book. The beginning and the end were action packed. I felt like it was a bit too slow in the middle. You really get sucked into the character of Abby and feel everything she feels. At least for me I did.
This novel brings to life every parents worst nightmare - losing a child and then facing each day afterward. In this case the main character is the soon-to-be stepmother Abby. In the first pages Abby describes her memory of the events that lead to Emma's disappearance and throughout the book she rep...
Abby Mason is about to be married to Jake and part of that package involves being stepmother to Emma. Abby has already fallen in love with the little girl. While on a quiet, foggy walk on the beach Abby is momentarily distracted and when she turns around Emma is gone. The book tells the story of ...
I'd give this book 3.5 stars. There were things I loved and hated. It was a little too wordy at times, but there were parts that I didn't want to stop listening to. The narrator did a really great job. And I don't think I could have ever actually 'read' the book - it was better on CD. I hated t...
I really felt for the main characters in this book...I could feel their heartbreak, and could see why they each went their separate ways when it came to dealing with Emma's disappearance. I felt that there was a lot of "nothing" in the middle, with Abby doing the same things repeatedly...though it ...
What if you were watching a friends daughter and she disappeared in your care? How would you handle it? I think I'd be pretty much like this poor woman. I'm so glad it ended the way it did, but what a shocker!
I was drawn to this book like a moth to a flame...it bored me to tears, yet was compelling at the same time. It's one of those books that's unbelievable, yet you have to see how the story ends. I also read a review where it said the name of the surfboard used in the book was made up, and for some re...
he Year of Fog somehow manages to be suspenseful and reflective at the same time. In the midst of the story of Abby's search for Emma, the child who mysteriously disappeared while in her care, Michelle Richmond weaves case histories on the subject of memory and considerations of how the past shapes ...
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