Goodreads România discussion

În ultima lună a anului vă invităm să vă faceți comozi în colțul preferat de lectură, la căldură, să luați o băutură în mână (fierbinte sau tare, după caz) și să citiți cu noi o carte despre zăpezi, iarnă, gheață, frig, crivăț, troiene etc.

Ca de obicei, fiecare dintre voi are la dispoziție două nominalizări și două susțineri.

Brr... m-a luat deja un pic cu frig...

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5 x The Bear and the Nightingale de Katherine Arden
3 x Mâna stângă a întunericului de Ursula K. Le Guin
3 x Argintul preschimbat de Naomi Novik
2 x Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl de Jonathan C. Slaght


1 x Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North de Blair Braverman
1 x The White South de Hammond Innes
1 x South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 de Ernest Shackleton
1 x Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident de Donnie Eichar
1 x The Raven and the Reindeer de T. Kingfisher
1 x The Snow Child de Eowyn Ivey
1 x Grădina de iarnă de Kristin Hannah
1 x The Bat de Jo Nesbø

Și ca să sparg gheața, două propuneri din partea mea:

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North de Blair Braverman

"Love the north? Want to comfortably experience it from afar? This excellent first book is an account of an achingly young person growing into the realities of young-womanhood in all its nuanced harshness, set in situations even harsher - wrestling hungry dogs, negotiating the social hierarchies of frost-bitten mushers and stoic Norwegians. The story is as gentle as a sled ride over rough terrain, but with pitch-perfect dialogue and crisp, unflinching portraits of difficult people and difficult places

Mâna stângă a întunericului de Ursula K. Le Guin

"The Left Hand of Darkness has some of the most chilling descriptions of chilly conditions you'll find in fiction; the reader and poor Genly Ai, who like us comes from a milder planet, very rarely get warm. One Gethenian creation myth begins, "In the beginning, there was nothing but ice and the sun." There are many precise and evocative words for snow: bessa, soft new-fallen snow; esyot, granular snow; neserem, "heavy snowfall on a moderate gale"."

o propunere mai reticenta (cred ca nu e usor de gasit cartea) :
The White South de Hammond Innes. Unul din autorii mei favoriti ai anilor 60 car imi aduce aminte de lecturi din colectia Stradion ale lui Douglass Reeman sau Alistair MacLean. Innes scrie cel mai bine cind subiectul include navigatie si aventuri pe mare. In exemplul ales, o baleniera moderna este prinsa in gheturi in apropriere de Antarctica, si misiunea de salvare este sabotata de unul din membrii echipajului.
Link-ul este catre recenzia mea de anul trecut

A doua propunere este South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 cartea care a fost sursa de inspiratie pentru romanul de aventuri de mai sus: un caz real fascinant de supravietuire in conditii extreme. Mi-am dorit de mult sa o citesc, in special dupa ce am vizitat un muzeu in aer liber in Punta Arenas unde este inclusa barca cu care au traversat Shackleton si citiva camarazi 1300 km de ocean inghetat

Propunere 1: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl

Despite a wingspan of six feet and a height of over two feet, the Blakiston’s fish owl is highly elusive. They are easiest to find in winter, when their tracks mark the snowy banks of the rivers where they feed. They are also endangered. And so, as Slaght and his devoted team set out to locate the owls, they aim to craft a conservation plan that helps ensure the species’ survival. This quest sends them on all-night monitoring missions in freezing tents, mad dashes across thawing rivers, and free-climbs up rotting trees to check nests for precious eggs. They use cutting-edge tracking technology and improvise ingenious traps. And all along, they must keep watch against a run-in with a bear or an Amur tiger. At the heart of Slaght’s story are the fish owls themselves: cunning hunters, devoted parents, singers of eerie duets, and survivors in a harsh and shrinking habitat.

Through this rare glimpse into the everyday life of a field scientist and conservationist, Owls of the Eastern Ice testifies to the determination and creativity essential to scientific advancement and serves as a powerful reminder of the beauty, strength, and vulnerability of the natural world.

Propunere 2: Spinning Silver de Naomi Novik. YA, fantasy, russian fairytales retelling. Cred ca a fost si tradusa, nu bag mana in foc. Girl power:)

Sustin: Mana stanga.

Propunere I: Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.

Propunere II: The Raven and the Reindeer - A strange, sly retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s "Snow Queen"

Sustinerea I: The Left Hand of Darkness
Sustinerea II: Spinning Silver sau varianta in limba romana Argintul preschimbat

sustin Owls of the Eastern Ice.

Cred ca revin ca sa propun tot The snow child :D

"Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them."

Propun The Bear and the Nightingale.
Pentru ca ce poate fi mai frumos decat lupta dintre gerul iernii rusesti si caldura povestilor din jurul vetrei familiale.

Sustin Argintul preschimbat, pentru ca o am in lista si tot astept de vreo 2 ani, cred, sa o scoata Nemira in format electronic.

Susțin The Bear...

Sustin The Bear and the Nightingale!

Și eu susțin The Bear and the Nightingale și propun Grădina de iarnă:

Meredith si Nina Whitson sunt doua surori cum nu se poate mai diferite. Una a ramas acasa ca sa-si creasca copiii si sa se ocupe de livada de meri a familiei; cealalta si-a urmat visul si a calatorit prin lume, devenind o fotojurnalista faimoasa. Dar cand tatal lor se imbolnaveste, cele doua femei se vor reintalni, regasind-o si pe Ania, mama lor distanta si ostila, care nici macar acum nu le ofera fiicelor ei nici un fel de mangaiere. Pe patul de moarte, tatal le smulge insa o ultima promisiune femeilor din viata sa.
Totul incepe cu o poveste cum surorile nu au mai auzit vreodata – o idila captivanta, misterioasa, ce se desfasoara pe o perioada de mai bine de sase decenii si pe doua continente, din Leningradul inghetat, aflat in plin razboi, pana in Alaska zilelor noastre.
Aceasta drama cutremuratoare le uneste pe cele trei femei intr-un mod cu totul neasteptat. Meredith si Nina vor afla in cele din urma secretul ce marcheaza trecutul mamei lor si vor descoperi un adevar teribil, care va zdruncina insusi fundamentul familiei lor si le va schimba viata.

Buna !
Sustin The bear and the nightingale si propun The Bat de Jo Nesbo care este primul roman din seria Harry Hole :

The Bat follows the story of Detective Harry Hole, who travels from Norway to Sydney, Australia, to help investigate the brutal rape and murder of Inger Holter, a young Norwegian woman. Assisted by Andrew Kensington and other Australian police officers, Harry soon concludes that Inger's death is part of a series of unsolved murders, leading to a number of suspects and shocking developments.

Am închis nominalizările, vă invit acum la vot!