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Light on Snow (2006)

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0316014281 (ISBN13: 9780316014281)
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English
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little brown and company

Light On Snow (2006) - Plot & Excerpts

This book is about a young girl and her dad. They recently lost their mom/wife and sister/daughter in a car accident in new york. They move away to a small town. One day they are snow shoeing and they hear a wail, they think it's just a cat or some other animal. But it ends up being a baby. They grb the baby and go to the hospital to save it. They get questioned by dectives and akll that good stuff. Then a lady comes to their dorr asking to look at some furniture to buy but it ends upo being the 19 year old mother of the child. The daughter starts to really like Charolette the 19 year old, she see's her as a an older sister or mother. And doesnt want her to leave. But the father is upset about her leaving her baby in the snow to die. But he soon finds out that she never wanted her chuild to die. So the book is about how she is living with them and the troubles they go through. And what they go through with the law.I really enjoy'd this book because it's suspensful. And it has a lot of different emotions in it. Your sad about the girls mom and baby sister dying. But it's really cute how she bonds with Charolette. The writer has a lot of descriptive words and you can visual everything thats happening. It's a great book it keeps you hooked. I really enjoy'd it. It made me feel like I was in the book with them.The writer Anita Shreve wrote this book so good. It keeps you so hooked you dont wanna stop reading it. it's also a fast read. And I like how it tottally made you feel like you were in the book sitting their with ana and her father drinking hot chocolate by a warm fire. You can visualize everything in the book. It's great. Anyone would like it. She knows how to keep your attention new stuff is popping up from every page. Its a must read.

Nicky é uma menina de 12 anos que vive com o pai no norte dos Estados Unidos, em New Hampshire. Os dois mudaram-se para lá depois de a mãe e a irmã bebé de Nicky terem falecido num acidente de automóvel, porque Robert desejava isolar-se do mundo e começar, de certo modo, uma vida nova. Numa das caminhadas pela neve que os dois costumam fazer, encontram um recém-nascido abandonado à sua sorte, e este acontecimento irá mudar várias coisas na vida dos dois.O livro é contado na primeira pessoa por Nicky, cerca de 20 anos depois dos acontecimentos centrais do livro, o que facilitou a voz da narradora, no sentido em que a narrativa podia ser adulta e não adequada à idade que ela tinha na altura. Achei que tanto Nicky como o pai foram duas personagens bem construídas; percebe-se bem quem são estas duas pessoas, quais os seus problemas interiores, a maioria deles marcados pelo acontecimento trágico da perda de metade da família.O caso do recém-nascido abandonado no meio da neve é intrigante e deixa o leitor curioso para saber o que aconteceu, mas a verdade é que, apesar de influenciar a vida de Nicky e Robert, não é explorado a fundo. A autora opta por centrar a narrativa nos dois, na relação atual e na marca deixada pela perda que sofreram. Não é que não tenha sido bem feito, mas desiludiu-me que a premissa da história, o acontecimento que marca o seu início, se tenha tornado tão secundário.Assim, e tendo sido um livro que gostei de ler e que considerei uma leitura interessante, parece que está de certo modo incompleto. Penso que a autora tinha aqui uma boa história, mas que precisaria de ser mais desenvolvida. Ainda assim, valeu a pena ler.

What do You think about Light On Snow (2006)?

If you enjoy a quick delve into the nature of grief, love, and family, but don't want to be overwhelmed with vicarious pain, then this is a good pick for you.The story is told in the first person by a woman looking back after many years on herself as an adolescent, but she uses the present tense for the current events of the story, and the past tense for longer-ago flashback events. I thought this made it feel less like a memoir and gave it more urgency. The author underlines the emotional elements of the story with frequent descriptions of the weather conditions and the landscape, but she doesn't indulge in ridiculous metaphors that might induce the gag reflex in the reader.Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by this novel. Though the plot was predictable in many ways, the predictable moments seemed to confirm the realism in the characters and situations rather than feeling like plot devices.
—Jennifer

I found the book in a quaint, but minuscule secondhand bookshop in the middle of nowhere. Since I've read one of the author's books before, I decided to read this one as well. It was such a delight to find in the first place there. It was one of the very few better choices. And I liked the reading experience.A twelve-year-old girl, Nicky, and her widowed dad, Robert, finds a baby in the snow. The Dillon's secluded life out in the New Hampshire's woods are suddenly not so simple anymore. They saved the baby's life; they were responsible; and brave, but suddenly their lives changed without them being in the driver's seat of their destiny. The follow-up events opens up their hidden feelings which they were unable to share with each other, or the outside world, without them turning the key in the lock of their unspoken private worlds themselves. It is a book for young adults, I would say, and a really gentle,fast, enjoyable read, but with a deep enough base to have me staying riveted to the story from the beginning to end. The book addresses the different forms of honesty, grief, happiness, love and choices. The young girl observes the events and is introduced into the world of serious issues, bigger than herself, very fast. A relaxing and feel-good read. The book is also very well written with all the plots coming together perfectly in the end. I would love to read more of the author's books.
—Margitte

I felt the cold air, saw the falling snow, and tasted the sweet hot chocolate that Nicky loved to drink. That's how powerful the descriptions of events and sensations were. I was there when Nicky and her father found the bright-eyed newborn and with Nicky and Charlotte as they trudged back to the place where the baby had been abandoned. I was with Robert Dillon in the dreary police station as he was being interviewed by Warren...and with Nicky as she waited for her father. The descriptions of scenes were so vivid and authentic that I felt I was there. And the people? Shreve's characters seemed as real as you or I: Robert with his debilitating grief, Nicky with her pre-adolescent innocence and eagerness to LIVE, Charlotte with her sad naiveté, and the grandmother with her hustling/bustling activity in the kitchen on Christmas Eve. I could even picture James, the baby's father. Yes, he was confused and despairing, BUT HE LEFT A BABY TO DIE before going on a skiing trip with his friends. Woven throughout the novel are themes of love, death, sadness, hope, loneliness, and the need for connections. The past touches the present as the reader imagines the loss of baby Clara and the birth of baby Doris. Although the book doesn't end exactly like I wanted it to, it ends like "real life," and the reader is left pondering what punishment lies in wait for James and what future Charlotte, Doris, Nicky, and John will have.
—Jayne Bowers

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