Kellie D. (EllyMae58) reviewed Welcome to My Planet : Where English Is Sometimes Spoken on + 31 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This book is HILARIOUS!
Ilyse F. reviewed Welcome to My Planet : Where English Is Sometimes Spoken on + 32 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
good read fun to read a great book to sit and relax with
Christie C. (ChristieC) reviewed Welcome to My Planet : Where English Is Sometimes Spoken on + 145 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This book is so funny!!! The dialogue between Shannon and pretty much everyone in the book is hilarious, especially her mother. I definitely recommend this as well as the sequel, Children of God Go Bowling.
Angela C. (rolltide1al) -
Helpful Score: 1
I loved this book. A great mother and daughter book. I'll definitely look for more by this author.
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Very fun book to read!
ShawnMarie M. (ShawnMarie) reviewed Welcome to My Planet : Where English Is Sometimes Spoken on + 78 more book reviews
This book was funny in placed, but I didn't care for the lead character.
Allison W. (sealady) reviewed Welcome to My Planet : Where English Is Sometimes Spoken on + 657 more book reviews
Amazon.com
In Welcome to My Planet, the fictional Shannon Olson--who shares her creator's name--is witty but confused, whip-smart but unable to fully release her ties to bad boyfriends, childhood obsessions, and the "gassy expanse" of marginal jobs. With the help of a therapist known only as the counselor, this almost 30-year-old Midwestern neurotic gamely tries to steer her way past credit-card-fueled Target binges and a too close relationship with her mother, Flo, and to slowly inch toward the elusive land of adulthood. Comparisons to the charming neurotics found in Bridget Jones's Diary and The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing are inevitable, but beside the point: Shannon is less brittle, less self-consciously hip than those postmodern heroines. Contemplating living on her own again after a stint with her parents, she whines to the counselor, "I've never really lived anywhere else. What if I never find anyone? I may as well go out and adopt a bunch of cats and start wearing macramé ponchos."
Olson's debut easily pulls us in with a conversational, seemingly unadorned style that camouflages her well-crafted narrative technique as she moves back and forth in time. With her retro and up-to-the-minute pop-culture references to The Love Boat, grieving conferences, Prozac, Oprah, bachelorette parties, and the ravages of graduate school (where Babe the Gallant Pig is a "text"), the author clearly knows her target audience. Welcome to My Planet is an almost perfect coming-of-age story for an era in which public life, jazzed by lightning technological and commercial changes, leapfrogs away while emotional adolescence strangely extends into our 30s. --Maura Alia Bramkamp
In Welcome to My Planet, the fictional Shannon Olson--who shares her creator's name--is witty but confused, whip-smart but unable to fully release her ties to bad boyfriends, childhood obsessions, and the "gassy expanse" of marginal jobs. With the help of a therapist known only as the counselor, this almost 30-year-old Midwestern neurotic gamely tries to steer her way past credit-card-fueled Target binges and a too close relationship with her mother, Flo, and to slowly inch toward the elusive land of adulthood. Comparisons to the charming neurotics found in Bridget Jones's Diary and The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing are inevitable, but beside the point: Shannon is less brittle, less self-consciously hip than those postmodern heroines. Contemplating living on her own again after a stint with her parents, she whines to the counselor, "I've never really lived anywhere else. What if I never find anyone? I may as well go out and adopt a bunch of cats and start wearing macramé ponchos."
Olson's debut easily pulls us in with a conversational, seemingly unadorned style that camouflages her well-crafted narrative technique as she moves back and forth in time. With her retro and up-to-the-minute pop-culture references to The Love Boat, grieving conferences, Prozac, Oprah, bachelorette parties, and the ravages of graduate school (where Babe the Gallant Pig is a "text"), the author clearly knows her target audience. Welcome to My Planet is an almost perfect coming-of-age story for an era in which public life, jazzed by lightning technological and commercial changes, leapfrogs away while emotional adolescence strangely extends into our 30s. --Maura Alia Bramkamp
Michele (luluinphilly) -
I really couldn't get into this book. I tried several times to get through the first chapter but my heart wasn't into it.
Leslie B. (unccmom) reviewed Welcome to My Planet : Where English Is Sometimes Spoken on + 21 more book reviews
I struggled with this book. So much so that I felt it a "chore" to even finish. I didn't find it humorous at all.
Chris K. (dalpal) -
Fun read, captivating style!
