Suggestions: January 2013 BOTM - Winter

[Landslide]

It's time to get our BOTM back on track. Since we don't have much time, I chose the theme for January: Winter. Meaning the book can be any genre as long as the story takes place in the winter. Stories that take place around Christmas time are also ok.

Please suggest your titles here and on the 26th I'll set up a poll.

As always, one suggestion per member only please.

 

[Landslide]

My suggestion: Twelve Days of Christmas by Trisha Ashley.

 

[Laura173]

My suggestion: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

 

[quilter Kathy]

THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN by David Baldacci

I just finished reading it and found it to be delightful! Funny as all "get-out," heartwarming and a terrific story, to boot!

 

[Hyrik]

Call of the wild

My choice is an old acquaintance The Call Of The Wild by Jack London one of the first books I ever read.

 

[lindaj07]

Snow by Orhan Pamuk. I was in Istanbul in July and rediscovered this wonderful writer!

 

[regdog]

My choice is an old acquaintance The Call Of The Wild by Jack London one of the first books I ever read.

I second this and add White Fang

 

[Rosemarie]

While I read and enjoyed THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN, THE SNOW CHILD looks like an enchanting reading for the post-Christmas doldrums.

M.K. Coker's police procedural DEAD WHITE is a wonderfully chilling introduction to the bleak Midwestern plains in winter.

 

[Disneyguy]

Rising sunsets by DH Cermeno. Great first novel.

 

[DLPughe]

Rock Crystal


Rock Crystal by Adelbert Stifter is one of the most wonderful Christmas books you could ever hope to read. A long short story, it is about two children who hike over the Alps to visit their grandparents in a neighboring village and are sent home mid-afternoon laden with presents. It is not more than a two hour walk, but they are caught in a spectacular blizzard on their return and how they deal with this marvel, their support of one another through the beauty of the storm, is remarkable. And, though there are dramas along the way, I can guarantee a happy ending. It is one of the most remarkable journeys that you feel you are with them the whole way, and the ending brings back all youthful feelings of warmth and fatigue after long, adventurous days in the heart of your family.

 

[ricko]

Valley forge

This book is a five star effort from Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen!
Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

 

[Will]

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg

 

[pontalba]

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg

yup, good one, for sure, except isn't it Sense, not feeling...have to look for sure.

 

[regdog]

I would also recommend The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

 

[Will]

yup, good one, for sure, except isn't it Sense, not feeling...have to look for sure.

It's both, but my copy says thus:

 

[pontalba]

It's both, but my copy says thus:

Oh! That's interesting. UK copy? I knew the covers were often different, but didn't realize titles were sometimes a bit different.

 

[Will]

It happens from time to time, one more famous example would be Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Also, as I recall, when I first read Anna Karenina in my teens my Penguin Classic' version was actually titled Anna Kareninin, something to do with it being the correct title in regards the masculine gender class applied to the female surname... but funnily I can't track down such a copy on Amazon when looking...

 

[Landslide]

The poll is set. Please go and vote.

I didn't consider Rising sunsets by DH Cermeno because I could not find a single mention of Winter on its synopsis.