Under A Pole Star | 
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The female narrator in this book was great. We follow her through her childhood on a whaling ship to her college days and on her various journeys back to the frozen north. The male narrator was just okay. His storyline focused more on all of the women he slept with than on his own arctic exploration. The best parts of the book, however, were the sections where the two characters were finally together.
I read Tenderness of Wolves some time ago, then saw this last week in the library. It's a chunkster of a book but her writing is good to read so I'm Hoping it keeps moving.
Picked this up at dollar tree today. Have any of you read it?
I‘m always down for anything with Indigenous peoplx and the cryosphere ❄️🤎🐺
pick❄️❄️❄️❄️This is a departure from my usual fare but it's really good to step outside of one's comfort zone occasionally and read different things. The story was really good but the problem for me was that I didn't feel close to any of the characters. It wasn't that I didn't like them; they just felt a bit distant. I really enjoyed reading this though and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to indulge in their inner adventurer.
A friend just recommended this, and I was able to pick up a copy at the library today! I know it is technically spring, but after a pretty Artic-like snowstorm yesterday, I think this fits the bill!
Book Buying Ban Day Three: no fewer than eight books showed up in the mail; husband questions my commitment. I realize how it must look to him but genuinely forgot I had 8 books coming when I bought half of Indigo in the Boxing Day sales. There is much room for improvement #nowheretogobutup
I had to pick a new audio for tonight's baking binge. This won because the book is so thick I know I won't get to it for a while. Six batches of cookies later I am loving it.
so-soI reverted to my habit of finishing when I should have bailed on this one. I was about 400 pages in and pushed through. I wanted more of the Inuit characters. And I‘m all for a well placed sex scene, but there were too many and all were frankly boring 😴💤. I give this a generous so-so.
She's a doozy! Clocking in at 580 pages! Looking forward to it.
Tenderness of Wolves was incredible can't wait to read Stef Penny's new book.📚😀
#TBRtemptation post 5! #BEA17 edition! Flora was 12 when she crossed the Arctic Circle in her father's whaler. The next time's at the head of an exploration expedition. A rival team means to outdo hers, with one Jakob on that team. When the 2 meet, a love affair begins which overcomes all. Jakob eventually accompanies his leader in a devastating interior expedition of Greenland. An elderly Flora recounts the events. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
Husband: why are you ordering books from England?
Me: because they aren't released yet in the US. Husband: oh so you've read all the US releases? Me: totally not the point. 😂🙄😮
Sometimes you have to travel to the furthest edge of the world in order to find your true place in it...
One of our favorite love stories, we'll be publishing Stef Penney's UNDER A POLE STAR in September 2017!
My plans for #LitsyPartyofOne. I have to work for a few hours this afternoon, but it's the easiest part of the day: pick Little Llama up at school, take her home, get her down for nap, and then read until MomBoss gets home. Usually I'm done by 3, so then it's home for more reading.
Ignore my pigsty of a living room. Life is currently kicking my ass. But I got book mail from the UK today! And yarn (not from the U.K.), but that's not pictured here. These are total #blameitonlitsy purchases. The books, not the yarn.
More #bookpost today from the wonderful Quercus #underapolestar by #stefpenney
I #blameitonlitsy. Two irresistible-looking titles I saw on here that aren't available in the US, so thank goodness for Amazon UK.
so-soI'm in two minds about this one. On the one hand I loved the setting in the Golden Age of Polar exploration; I loved that one of the main characters was a female explorer; and the descriptions of Greenland and all the cold places were wonderful.
On the other hand it could have done with a trim as 600 pages really felt like 600 pages. And the super graphic sex scenes were too many and too long. It felt like a real chore getting through them.
That moment when you're in a bookshop and come across a hard copy of the book you're reading from NetGalley! 😃
I requested this book on NetGalley because I LOVE reading about books set in the extreme cold places of the planet (like Antarctica and it's surrounds, and the Arctic Circle). What I didn't know when I requested it was that it also had whaling in it, making it the third book I've read this year, and the fifth in my possession, that has whaling in it.
Also, it's very good so far.
so-soStef Penney returns to the frozen landscapes she conveyed so evocatively in the Costa winning THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES with an epic historical romance set among the early polar expeditions. However while the landscape is luscious, the emotionally chilly Flora is difficult to relate to and I never cared about her relationship with Jakob so while I kept turning the pages, I never really connected with the story.
