As much of the country continues to be impacted by snow, I can't help but think about winter reads and tales of epic snow and feezing temperatures and survival. Here are two of my favorite books to curl up with (preferably in front of a fire with a cup of cocoa).
Eowyn Ivey's
The Snow Child: a novel is one of my favorite winter tales. Childless couple Jack and Mabel are homesteading in Alaska in 1920. Their first winter is a lonely and brutal one and they decide to combat it by building a snow child. The next morning the snow child is gone and in her place is a young girl with blonde hair who calls herself Faina. She is a child of the woods and prefers to live in the wilderness with a fox by her side. Each winter she reappears and Jack and Mabel begin to love her like she was their own daughter. This is a charming fairy tale that will warm your heart.
Frozen in Time: an epic story of survival and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff is a great work of narrative nonfiction. It is has two stories: one of a U.S. cargo plane that crashed in Greenland in 1942 (and the B-17 rescue plane that suffered the same fate) and one of a 2012 mission to find the wreckage. The nine men aboard the B-17 spent 148 days trapped in snow and ice as they waited to be rescued. This is an incredible story of survival and tenacity that reads like a thriller.
Now it's your turn. What is your favorite winter read?
3 comments:
I confess I really love Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin (which has a million holds right now since the movie is coming out).
Right now I'd say Louise Penny's A Fatal Grace. That cold, snowy setting with a wonderful pub really drew me in. And now I'm reading the whole series.
I like the Stork series by Wendy Delsol which includes interpretations of Jack Frost and the Snow Queen and winter-y locations such as Minnesota, Greenland and Iceland.
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