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Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
About the Canadian Far North, Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez, a National Book Award winner of 1986, is nature writing at its highest level. The appreciation of natural forces, wild life, months of darkness and months of l… -
Serious Not Depressing, Somber But Inspiring
Strange that Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a young American farmer-soldier should become a forgotten novel, seldom mentioned along with My Antonia, O Pioneers or Death Comes for the Archbishop. Published… -
An Ill-fated Family
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi was awarded the Noma Prize, Japan's highest literary honor, in 1957 so I read it for the Book Awards III reading challenge. Eight years in the writing, it is a thought =provoking novel… -
"My Most Horrible Plot Yet"
Ross Macdonald won the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger award in 1965 for his detective novel The Chill. Starring the series hero Lew Archer, this mystery is among the best that Macdonald wrote: The Galton Case (1… -
This Sporting Life
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man is the first volume of a trilogy written by Siegfried Sassoon about his Great War experiences. As a fictionalized memoir, it covers his childhood and extended adolescence leading up the war s… -
The Victorians and Us
For the 1st of five books for the Book Awards III reading challenge, I read Possession by A.S. Byatt. It won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 1990 In this delightfully long and captivating novel, two plots move at a… -
Book Awards Challenge III
The Book Awards Challenge III is to read five winners from July 1 to December 1, 2009. All have to be different prizes. 1. [1990 Booker] Possession - A. S. Byatt 2. [1928 James Tait Black Memorial Prize] Memoirs of a F… -
Novel of Real Quality
I read The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore as the 10th of ten for the Book Awards Reading Challenge. This political thriller and novel of ideas won the short-lived Sunday Express Book of the Year Prize in 1987. In an unna… -
Award-winning Western
I read Journey of the Dead as the 9th novel of 10 for the Book Awards Reading Challenge. It won the 1999 Golden Spur Award for Best Western Novel. Like Elmer Kelton and Douglas C. Jones, Loren Estleman is known for his n… -
Burdens Shed on a Journey
I read Tracks by Robyn Davidson as the 8th of ten for the Book Awards Reading Challenge. This outstanding chronicle won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 1980, the first year in which it was granted. Starting in Alice…
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