Reviews and Blog Posts: snow

Waiting for winter

by Sebastian Meschenmoser

DPL Rating:
5

A deer tells a squirrel about snow, "White and wet and cold and soft." The squirrel decides to stay awake this winter and see the snow. The squirrel's attempts to stay awake (vigorous exercise, singing sea shanties) wake up a hedgehog and a squirrel, who also want to see this...

The Voyage of the Short Serpent : a novel

by Bernard Du Boucheron

DPL Rating:
5

This literary trip across frozen seas to medieval Greenland made me very thankful that I live in the 21st century. A bishop, sent by the Church to investigate rumors of heresy and to check the progress of a group of settlers, encounters every imaginable horror of weather and desperation. How is it possible to like a book...

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