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Dog Ear Diary

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A book lover's reviews. Features books about animal behavior, wildlife, nature, general fiction, fantasy, various nonfiction topics and more!

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  • Wolf Totem

    Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 07:32 in animals fiction, current reads, 4 5- great book

    by Jiang Rongtranslated by Howard GoldblattI feel a bit inadequate to say anything about this sweeping novel. Wolf Totem is a semi-autobiographical work about a Chinese student from Beijing named Chen Zhen who goes to live among the nomadic people of...

  • book giveaway

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 06:32 in giveaways

    win a free bookThis week I'm giving away a book and two bookmarks. I have a nice, hardbound copy of The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans, and two laminated bookmarks made from my scrap file, of horse pictures. (Reverse sides are plain pattern and sc...

  • The Horse Whisperer

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 06:30 in animals fiction, past reads, 3 5- good read

    by Nicholas EvansTragedy happens when Grace goes out riding early one winter morning with her best friend. Their horses slip on an icy slope and collide with a semi truck on the road below. Grace and her horse barely survive, the animal so badly inju...

  • Where You Once Belonged

    Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 10:40 in general fiction, past reads, 3 5- good read

    by Kent HarufI read this one several years ago, from the library. I didn't like it quite as well as the other Haruf novels I've read. This one is also set in small farming community in Colorado. The plot builds its way backwards as a former local foo...

  • Jack of Kinrowan

    Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 12:18 in fantasy sci fi, past reads, 3 5- good read

    by Charles de LintThis book was only vaguely familiar to me when I first added it to my pile at the library, but after reading a dozen pages and thumbing through more, I realized I've actually read it before. And didn't want to read it again, now. Bu...

  • Dingo

    Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 07:56 in young adult, fantasy sci fi, 2 5- just okay

    by Charles de LintIn a small quiet seaside town, Miguel meets an exotic girl- Lainey with the red-gold hair and the accompanying red-gold dog. She's from Australia, but he soon finds out that there's something more strange about her than just a forei...

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