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The North Becomes Her

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

September 25, 2022 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

Tanya Tagaq is an Inuit artist from Canada’s Arctic. She’s best known as a musician for her albums/ performances of throat singing, where she takes traditional Inuit throat singing and makes it her own; she has been nominated and won a number of Canadian music awards. In addition to music, Tagaq writes and her first work, Split Tooth, was published several years ago. It was long listed for the Giller Prize (Canada’s best known literary award) and for an Amazon best first novel award. Split […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Arctic, bodies, cbr14bingo, Inuit, split tooth, tanya tagaq

Wanderlustful's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Arctic, bodies, cbr14bingo, Inuit, split tooth, tanya tagaq ·
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Apocalypse Snow: The Terror, The Terror

The Terror by Dan Simmons

February 15, 2022 by Saube75013 Leave a Comment

Despite a few defaults (repetitive set pieces in the middle section, some predictable twists, probably too many characters), this tale of the ill fated expedition of the Royal Navy to the Arctic in the 1840s will be worth your time. Based on a true story (what fiction isn’t these days?) this mixes brilliantly exploration, survival and fantasy with a vivid style that will make you feel the cold, pain and suffering of the sailors who went to discover a passage to the north and found […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: Arctic, Cold, dan simmons, survival

Saube75013's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: Arctic, Cold, dan simmons, survival ·
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Why is it cheap to feed polar bears? (Because they live on ice only.)

Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival by Lindsay Moore

September 12, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival is a lovely illustrated picture book. It is also an easily accessible story for almost any age. Lindsay Moore has a quaint story about a bear and the day to day activities it must do to survive. And while the life of a polar pear is not easy, she shows the world, so it is not too dark. It does mention that the bear eats the seals and such but does not show you this in any graphic detail. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Arctic, environmental, Lindsay Moore, science

BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:372 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Arctic, environmental, Lindsay Moore, science ·
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