CHRISTINE POULSON snow Archives

Snow-bound in real life (and book bargains)

Posted on Mar 9, 2018 in Antarctica, bargain, Cold Cold Heart, Deep Water, snow, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

This was the view from our landing window last week after the arrival of the Beast from the East. The snow has all gone now, thank goodness. Although it was so beautiful – what fabulous icicles – it was also very inconvenient. I didn’t get my car out for a week and like many other […]

Snowed In!

Posted on Dec 2, 2010 in Dorothy L Sawyers, Peg Bracken, snow | 2 Comments

For the first time ever in the fourteen years we are completely snowed in. Yesterday we woke to 16 inches of snow and it has gone on falling ever since off and on. In the past there has always the train to fall back on (that was how we got to our son’s wedding four […]

Let it snow . . .

Posted on Nov 30, 2010 in Dorothy L Sawyers, snow, William Maxwell | No Comments

I don’t usually blog about the weather, but it is the dominating fact of our lives at the moment. The snow arrived last Friday night and the threat of more stopped us going away at the week-end. It wasn’t too bad yesterday: my husband got his car out and our daughter got to school. But […]

Snow

Posted on Jan 20, 2010 in A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Apsley Cherry-Gerrard, Jack London, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg, S, snow, Solzhenitsyn, The Worst journey in the World, To Build a Fire | 2 Comments

After I wrote about SICK HEART RIVER in last week’s blog, I got to thinking about other works of fiction that deal with the intense cold, not least because we’ve had a bit of that ourselves and have been snowed in. I realised that some of the most memorable books I’ve read have dealt with […]