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Bibliofiles: Books to reflect the cold chill of winter
Donna Liquori
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There’s about a foot or so of snow on the ground with more on the way. The temperature was 15 degrees one morning this week. And we were under a winter storm watch. So, you’d think I’d be reading and fantasizing about tropical places. But I’m one of those people who likes winter. And I like literature involving cold, remote places.
I’ve just finished “Migrations” by Charlotte McConaghy. The book starts off with an ornithologist in Greenland banding some of the last Arctic terns. The novel is set in the future and begins with the words, “The animals are dying. Soon we will be alone here.” Franny Stone is hoping to follow these birds as they migrate south. And she’s hoping one of the last fishing boats will take her there. Stone, a sleepwalking Ir
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Charlotte McConaghy was stuck in every sense of the word. She’d written eight books, all in the young-adult science fiction or fantasy genre, then found herself asking,
What next? Not just for her writing but for her life.
In hopes of finding the answers, she flung herself away from her native Australia and embarked on an adventure that began in London.
At first, England seemed the right fit. “I’ve never really felt like your quintessential Aussie,” McConaghy says. “I’m more of an English rose. I don’t like the sun. I like the rain and the cold.”
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Courtney Summers continues to build up her YA institution, and her latest edition (on shelves now) follows in her footsteps of eerie, unsettling and
unputdownable novels.
New York Times bestseller
Sadie, centers around a pair of sisters after the death of their parents. Protagonist Lo is in the care of their aunt, while Bea finds herself caught up (
very caught up) in The Unity Project, a cult-like community in upstate New York. The narrative force of
The Project follows Lo in her attempts to unbury the group s secrets and extricate her sister from the leader s clutches. Here, Summers answers EW s burning book questions about what started her on the writing path and her experience writing her latest thriller.