by Claire Cameron
Prior to reading this book, I had seen a review or two, which piqued my interest in the book. And when I was able to sit down with the book and read it, I basically ripped through the book and could really feel the intensity of the kids trying to get help. It took me a couple times to read the beg...
This review originally appeared as part of Pageturners: sometimes mysterious on Buried.In.Print. The perspective in The Bear is five-year-old Anna’s; imagine hers to be the larger silhouette on the cover, with her nearly-three-year-old brother in tow. Imagine her to be tugging him away from the ...
Latest review for Liz Loves Books from lovely daughter Mel :) With thanks to Harvill Secker for the competition copy. Anna is five. Her little brother, Stick, is almost three. They are camping with their parents in Algonquin Park, in three thousand square miles of wilderness. It's the perfect fa...
Young siblings Anna and Alex (aka Sticky) are on their own. Their parents will meet them back on the mainland, once they've healed from injuries caused by a "black dog". Or will they? Anna rows the boat, as the novel transitions from thriller to survivalist.Whilst the first part is confusing but eng...
THE BEAR is an emotional heavy-hitter, if you can push through two-hundred pages of narrative told in the voice of a five-year-old. It is hard reading, but the payoff may be worth it. Your call. Here’s a sample: “No one comes and all the parents are mad and gone away and I am not supposed to scre...
THE BEAR, by Claire Cameron, was a Did Not Finish for me. The writing bored me to tears, and that's probably my fault, as I was branching out by reading this in the first place. I simply could not believe the narrator's voice was that of a child. Especially a child so young. Decline to rate due t...
Title: The Bear Who wrote it? Claire Cameron, a former wilderness instructor in Ontario's Algonquin Park. Plot in a box: Anna is five years old and soon she will be six and Anna and her brother Stick and Momma and Daddy go camping and a big black dog comes and there's a piece of meat it ha...
Title: The Bear Who wrote it? Claire Cameron, a former wilderness instructor in Ontario's Algonquin Park. Plot in a box: Anna is five years old and soon she will be six and Anna and her brother Stick and Momma and Daddy go camping and a big black dog comes and there's a piece of meat it ha...
4.5 out of 5 starsI received an advance reader edition of this book from Little, Brown and Company and Net Galley for the purpose of review.I really enjoyed this book. It is no secret that I read a lot. I have read lots of books. Because I read so many books, I often see similarities in the book ...
Netgalley This novel, little in size spans themes that have the capacity to be happy and tragic, and often both, coalescing in eerily familiarity. These themes are familiar to all of us. We embrace, struggle against, and often smile at our youth—how silly we were pretending to be cowboys and Indians...
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