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Title: Moon over Lake Elmo: A Novel by Steve Thayer ISBN: 0-451-20373-9 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: oc assignment
Comment: Moon over lake elmo was a series of letters going through time and generations. Although placed sparatically throughout the book they told the story carefully and beautifully. It showed the difficulty with life. Surprisingly it didn't focus on the inter racial relationship too much. But it did show how violence and abuse can affect one's mind. Overall the book was very good.
I agree with the publisher's weekly's review. The book did lack details. But it made up with the realism that can come with using letters as a medium for communication. By reading these letters and journals we can get a sense of what these characters think. I like how this book was written.
Rating: 4
Summary: Moon Over Lake Elmo...
Comment: Moon Over Lake Elmo is a novel that you have to read very carefully to fully appreciate it's contents. The book is not written in a sequence of events or narrated, it is composed of letters written from the main character to his daughter and of journal entries varying in dates from the 1950's to the 1990's. I think Steve Thayer does a good job of portraying an American family and all the problems they go through in fairly good detail. Millions of Americans come from broken homes as divorce is no longer as uncommon as it was in past times, so many readers can relate to these types of problems with relative ease. The fact that the book is written out of journal entries & letters gives the reader a very personal insight into what someone might go through in such a situation. It is a good read, in my opinion, and I would reccomend it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Minnesota POV
Comment: Lake Elmo is a place of solace for me, so when I saw this book, I had to pick it up. I live about 15 minutes from there and go walking and running at the Lake Elmo park reserve. The book struck a nerve in me because Steve's dad grew up in northern Wisconsin not too far from where I did, and I have always been fascinated with life during and post WWII. These diaries/letter were from three extremely different people, but yet, they were all so similar. The diaries talked of happy times in the past, the current dread they were going through, and the hope for a better future. Just to read some of those passages broke my heart. I wish my grandparents had kept a diary so I could know what they've been through. I did wish for more, though. I wanted to know more and more about these people, but there's only so much you can do with a journal. You can't go back and find out more if the person is dead. Anyway, a very good book, and if you live in St. Paul or are from NW Wisconsin, there are a lot of areas and landmarks mentioned!
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Title: Silent Snow by Steve Thayer ISBN: 0451186648 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 12 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Wheat Field by Steve Thayer ISBN: 0451410750 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Wolf Pass: A Novel by Steve Thayer ISBN: 0399149910 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 10 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Saint Mudd: A Novel of Gangsters and Saints by Steve Thayer ISBN: 0451176820 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Weatherman by Steve Thayer ISBN: 0451184386 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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