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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
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
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
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
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
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
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...

