Spooner-- Book Review

Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand. (goodreads.com)


This book comes out 9/24 and $ 26.99

This is my first time reading this author. He attention to detail was amazing. There are 2 point of Views of Calmer and Spooner. Calmer was the step dad and Spooner was the son. The names made the it a bit tough to read the story. There are 7 parts of the story and they are usually places where events happen.

This book did take me a while to read and I struggled with the pacing of the story. Either it would go to fast or drag on. There are times when I wanted to glaze over the story because it seemed longer than it should be. I also understand that the author took out 200 pages too, but it seemed longer than necessary.

It seemed that this was a journey of 2 people and seeing snippets from life like birth, kids, school, marriage, working..etc. I liked meeting some of the secondary characters because we got to see what happened with them from the beginning. I found it was ironic that a scene from the beginning was in the end-- not saying at all.

I liked it overall so I gave this a 3 out 5 stars. Thanks Miriam for the books.