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Loading... Your Oasis on Flame Lake (Ballantine Reader's Circle)by Lorna Landvik
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.   mazda502001 | Dec 11, 2009 |  tinylittlelibrarian | Oct 13, 2008 | I'd rank this 4 stars if the early character development didn't seem to wander a bit. I'm glad I stuck with it because, by the middle of the book, I was drawn in to this story of two families going through a difficult stretch by Landvik's presentation of the key character's differing points of view. As the key events unfold in the second half, the story simply rolls along on the voices of the various narrators. In the end, you'll feel like you've spent some quality time with a few good friends. This unabridged audio production is excellent. With a different reader for each of the narrators, keeping up with the varying points of view is no chore at all and, after awhile, you really start to warm up to a few of the voices as their characters take on their full shape. Os. (  ) Osbaldistone | Oct 6, 2007 | Told from the points of view of several different characters, this novel slowly reveals the relationships between different characters in a town located on Flame Lake. Dick and Devera have a seemingly solid marriage but Devera is going through something like a midlife crisis. Her best friend BiDi is married to her second husband, Sergio, who loves her dearly but is frustrated by how she treats his step-daughter, Franny, who does not live up to BiDi's idea of beauty or femininity. As various minor tragedies occur to these two families, each character tells his or her side of the story. While the different "voices" are not always distinguishable (thank goodness the author identifies each at the beginning of the chapter), this technique allows the reader to see how each character is truly effected by the events. Landvik always incorporates humor into her works and Your Oasis is no exception. Dick opens a nightclub in their basement, for goodness sake! She also employs some brilliantly funny turns of phrase, even in the midst of dramatic scenes. Very easy to read and enjoyable but not fluff. The novel deals with emotions that we've all felt as kids and adults. (  ) bookappeal | Feb 20, 2007 | Not my favorite of her books. ( ) allysther | Feb 26, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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Best friends Devera and BiDi, fast approaching forty in the small Minnesota town of Flame Lake, crave big changes. Then an unexpected crisis throws their lives into chaos and teaches them the power of forgiveness. (