Books and Writing - January book club nominations

Tomorrow's skies · 12-21-2011, 09:35 PM

2012 is almost here! And with it starts our new themed book clubs

This month's theme is: Cold or wintry

Same rules apply:
We'll take the first (applicable) four nominations

Nominations can be the introduction to a series, or a stand-alone book

Get nominating!

*Please provide a cover and book description when making nominations.

stinebiene · 12-22-2011, 07:42 PM

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg - it's going to be the next book I read anyway

Do I have to include a description or is this enough?

Tomorrow's skies · 12-23-2011, 12:20 PM

A description and cover is usually provided, yes

Stay to the Lights · 12-27-2011, 05:54 AM

I'm trying to think what would classify for this theme. Can it still be in say the paranormal area, but if it has snow or something cold on the cover?

Tomorrow's skies · 12-27-2011, 02:38 PM

Snow or cold in the book, a cover could be misleading.

And I've amended the OP, ** providing a cover and description is required for nominations. If its not included the nomination isn't valid.

Tomorrow's skies · 12-27-2011, 02:44 PM

Quote:

The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember.
Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adara's home. And only a winter child--and the ice dragon who loved her--could save her world from utter destruction.
The Ice Dragon marks the highly anticipated children's book debut of George R.R. Martin, the award-winning author of the New York Times best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire and is set in the same world.

crash landing · 12-27-2011, 06:45 PM

White Fang by Jack London

Quote:

White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North--kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang''s life can prepare him for the cruel owner who turns him into a vicious killer. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master?

Tomorrow's skies · 12-28-2011, 06:34 PM

These lists on goodreads may be helpful

Ice and Snow (219 books)
Out in the Cold (155 books)

crash landing · 12-28-2011, 06:38 PM

Good call on the links

AtomicEmpress · 12-29-2011, 08:03 PM

I just got this book for christmas -

Rose has always been different.

Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose's birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home... but she can't suppress Rose's true nature forever.

So when an enormous white bear shows up one cold autumn evening and asks teenage Rose to come away with it-- in exchange for health and prosperity for her ailing family-- she readily agrees.

Rose travels on the bear's broad back to a distant and empty castle, where she is nightly joined by a mysterious stranger. In discovering his identity, she loses her heart-- and finds her purpose-- and realizes her journey has only just begun.

Stay to the Lights · 12-29-2011, 08:47 PM

One more nomination.

Tomorrow's skies · 12-29-2011, 11:15 PM

I've been wanting to read that one

AtomicEmpress · 12-31-2011, 01:51 PM

what do we do about a fourth nomination?

Roxy87 · 12-31-2011, 02:09 PM

Would The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe count as the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia? I know it was published first, but it's generally labeled #2 when it's sold as a series.

crash landing · 12-31-2011, 02:25 PM

I don't know

it is #2 but its the one most know about

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