( 5 reviews )
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Posted: Oct 1 2007
I just finished this book and I enjoyed it. I usually look for women authors but I'm pleased with my choice of this book/author. He made me laugh, maybe even taught me something (through the character's dad and also Sister North). Sweet, touching.
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Posted: Feb 24 2007
This is a great book with well developed characters. It is different and interesting.
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Posted: Oct 18 2005
The praise about the dialogue and description is both as true as it is noteworthy. But the key matters here are the transformations of people / characters. Of Sam, Willie, Louis, Meg, Patrick, Lila and Dot, and others. Each different, one from then other, dealing with true faith unique to each person, as opposed to surface / commercial faith. Each person comes to do the right thing, more or less, because of his or her own journey to, and within, Eagleton, Wisconsin. John Lennon once wrote, Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans. In Sister North, the same can be said, through story and character -- that the plan you make to obtain religious awareness, and awareness of self or others, is not the true road that takes you to your awareness. Plus, the zinger Sam receives from (I won't say who) in answer to his big question, is, in fact, a zinger. Sam's flaws are what make him interesting, they make the reader root for him. Without cliche, but with humor and originality, Sister North takes the reader on a mixed journey of humor, tragedy, and resolution, ending softly, and importantly, on what the real treasure is within the borders of Eagleton, WI.
