The Snow Child
Format: kindle
ASIN: 11804125
Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books
Pages no: 401
“No warm blood in me doth glow, Water in my veins doth flow; Yet I’ll laugh and sing and playB y frosty night and frosty day– Little daughter of the Snow. "But whenever I do know That you love me little, then I shall melt away again. Back into the sky I’ll go– Little daughter of the Snow.” - An...
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Once upon a time there lived a childless old couple... This is not an uncommon beginning to folk tales, a simple introductory line which can (and in Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child does) condense into a few simple words the years of pain, sadness, and intense longing for something that nature refused...
This was such a hope-bringing book. I loved it, the story, the characters, the plot, the setting... Alaska seems to me a cruel country and yet I can imagine people falling in love with it, because it must be beautiful and breath-taking (perhaps even sublime). I am really glad I read this book.Othe...
I was between a 3 and a 4 for this book. I was unsure if I "really liked it" but it is much better than other books I've marked three stars. It is beautifully written, but there was something about the story that always seemed just beyond my grasp. I think all said and done, the story ambles. Years ...