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Arctic Dreams

Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez

January 21, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I kept reading reviews of this book as being stunningly beautiful nature writing, and with a name like Arctic Dreams this makes perfect sense. It also made me not really want to read it at first. And I actually just picked it up and jumped into the other day and devoured it. It IS beautiful, but unlike my worries, there’s a lot of meat here. Barry Lopez is probably most well-known for this book, but he’s also a travel writer, a nature writer, a journalist, […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: barry lopez

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: barry lopez ·
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They had opposed the marriage to my mother, I understood.

Winter Count by Barry Lopez

Cast a Cold Eye by Mary McCarthy

Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen

A Blue Tale and Other Stories by Marguerite Yourcenar

June 10, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Winter Count – 4/5 Stars This is a small collection of mostly atmospheric and impressionistic short fiction, more sketches than stories, by the travel and nature writer Barry Lopez. He is most famous for his longer nonfiction like Of Wolves and Men, Arctic Dreams, and you might be hearing his name more prominently in the next few months based on early reviews of his latest book, Horizon. This book is a series of small fictions that mostly deal with little moments, painted scenes, character sketches, […]

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: a blue tale and other stories, barry lopez, Cast a cold eye, marguerite yourcenar, Mary McCarthy, tell me a riddle, tillie olsen, winter count

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:338 · Genres: Short Stories · Tags: a blue tale and other stories, barry lopez, Cast a cold eye, marguerite yourcenar, Mary McCarthy, tell me a riddle, tillie olsen, winter count ·
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