bookshelves: alaska, cover-love, debut, radio-4, period-piece, north-americas, spring-2012 Read from March 30 to April 15, 2012 SnegurochkaAt the halfway point this is doing for 2012 what The Tiger's Wife did for me in 2011.blurb - Jack and Mabel hope that a fresh start in 'Alaska, our newest h...
4.5 stars.“We never know what is going to happen, do we? Life is always throwing us this way and that. That’s where the adventure is. Not knowing where you’ll end up or how you’ll fare. It’s all a mystery, and when we say any different, we’re just lying to ourselves. Tell me, when have you felt most...
This is one of those novels that succeed in large part because of the atmosphere and the care that goes into crafting characters. Mabel and Jack is a childless older couple who move to Alaska to find a new life. They are also coming to terms with their own grief and loneness. One day, they notice...
there once lived a woman and an old man. They lived in harmony and friendship. Everything would have been fine, had it not been for the great sorrow—the old couple had no children." "what about it, old woman, let's make a daughter out of snow." the old man proposed. "Let's," the old woman replied....
Read my full review @ http://bit.ly/YuKOwrMy opinion: I loved this story. Ms. Ivey was able to capture the desperation, not only of Jack and Mabel, but of the other in the small Alaska town. Like Mabel to Faina, I found myself becoming more and more emotionally connected to Mabel as I watched her co...
This book was fascinating in many ways. First, I don't know much about the lives of the pioneers who settled Alaska and this was a beautiful description of what it must have been like. Second, the integration of a Russian fairy tale about a elderly couple and snow child into this stark, harsh world ...
Wow. I've finished the book and have absolutely no idea what to rate it. It was probably one of the strangest books I have ever read and it kept me reading, but I really can't say why. Missing were the elements that I normally need to love a book or even for me to keep interest and yet I still did. ...
SnegurochkaAt the halfway point this is doing for 2012 what The Tiger's Wife did for me in 2011.blurb - Jack and Mabel hope that a fresh start in 'Alaska, our newest homeland' will enable them to put the strain of their childless marriage behind them. But the northern wilderness proves as unforgivin...
I really liked this book. It's extremely well written and you're drawn into the characters and the story. The story starts off with a middle-aged couple, Jack and Mabel, who move to Alaska in the 1920s after their baby is stillborn. They're hoping to escape from the pain of losing their child by ...
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