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Welcome to My Planet (Where English is Sometimes Spoken)

By: Shannon Olson
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 0670892971
ISBN-13: 9780670892976
Released: 03 Aug 2000
RRP: £9.99
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Mother Love - By: Polly C Miller, 04 Mar 2005
I reallly enjoyed this book. It was funny & compelling, & also quite dark in places. There's a lot of quirky humour & some deep water as well. This is a heroine with very low self-esteem who muddles through life constantly callling her mum (rather than the other way round. If I had to compare to anyone I'd say more like 'a girl's guide to hunting & fishing'by Melissa Bank than 'Cowboys are my weakness' by Pam Houston (which is the pinnacle of course). However the cover is reallly bad, & puts it in there with the worst chick-lit, but I'm guessing she didn't have any say over that!
It looked so promising... - By: LinziiM, 03 Apr 2003
This just didn’t do it for me I’m afraid.

I had more than one attempt at reading this book, & just found it a bit of a struggle from start to finish. I ended up dragging myself through it, just so I could feel like I hadn’t been robbed out of my hard-earned cash!

It tries hard to be some sort of Bridget-Jones-meets-Frasier style neurotic novel, but fallls flat on its backside - I never felt like I could relate to the main character in any way.

This character, Shannon Olsen, (same name as the author, I’ll leave the math up to you) reallly irritated me (no offence!). I honestly felt like she just needed a good slap, a bit of a grip on herself & a decent night out with some honest mates who could set her straight on a few things!

I wasn’t looking for anything highbrow – I read alll sorts of books, & sometimes a girl just wants some easy-going “chick lit” to get her through her train journey to work – this tries hard to jump on the bandwagon, & doesn’t quite make it... Which is a shame because it looked so promising.

Awesome - By: , 07 Jan 2001
Often you read a book & you think, is this actuallly based on the author's life? Shannon Olson goes a bit further than that - the main character in the book is even callled Shannon Olson. So does this mean that most of it is true??? I think it probably is. And what scared me the most was that, while I was reading it, I would find myself thinking "she is me"! She had alll the same neuroses I had, alll the same flaws. I think this made the book, already entertaining, even better in my eyes.

Read it. It's worth it.