26 October 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: myth & religion
Setting: Asgard
9 Stars
7 Comments
Quotes I liked ; Pinterest There was once a girl, an evacuee during the blitz, who read a lot. Myths, legends, religious books. And her favourite was the Norse tales. She read and reread them; they spoke to something in … Continue reading
26 September 2011
Call no: 800
Genre: animal-human relationships, contemporary fiction, Juv/YA
Setting: 1970s, USA - Alaska
8 Stars
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Received free from NetGalley Written in 1972 this is the story of Miyax, whose English name is Julie, and her attempt to run away to San Fransicso. When the story begins she is alone in the wilderness. A nearby wolf-pack … Continue reading
30 August 2010
Genre: animal-human relationships, non-fiction
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I first heard of Shaun Ellis when I watched the Natural Geographic documentary on him and his theories about how playing recordings of wolf packs can stop wolf attacks on farm animals. It worked in Poland, but Ellis has no science-biology background so his theories aren’t really accepted. Wolves have always been among my favourite animals, so I guess I was always going to be interested, like the way I’ll always watch those animal rescue shows, even when I know they’re bound to be all overly dramatic and manipulative.
22 April 2006
Call no: 800
Genre: detective & mystery
Setting: France
10 Stars
2 Comments
Fred Vargas Trans from the French: David Bellos
Yes again a cover influenced purchase, so I am glad to report that a good cover can lead to a good read too. I really enjoyed this book. The language, characters and descriptions are fantastic, so I suppose a lot of praise must also go to the translater as well.
The book opens with the character of Lawrence Donald Johnstone, a Canadian in France to film wolves. He’s been away from his true love, grizzly bears, for far too long, and is rooting in in Mercantour. Not only for the skinny European wolves, although he has come to love them, but also because there’s a woman, Camille, in his life.
But when dead sheep, always ewes are found the locals begin to look at the “foreign Italian wolves” with suspicion and hate. They organise local hunts. Coming to believe that it is all the work of one, huge, extraordinary animal.
16 March 2005
Cast: Émilie Dequenne, Mark Dacascos, Monica Bellucci, Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel
Script: Christophe Gans, Stéphane Cabel
Genre: Action, horror
Setting: C18th, France
10 Stars
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I just bought this on dvd after seeing many good reviews of it since its release. Plus, you know werewolf film so figured for 8 quid I wasn’t really wasting any money if it was rubbish. It wasn’t. It is … Continue reading
11 June 2004
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction, sff
3 Stars
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ISBN: 0006483879 Found this to be a very disappointing read. I read the previous two in this series: The Silver Wolf and The Night of the Wolf and while neither of them are spectacularly great novels they were both interesting, … Continue reading
4 April 2004
Script: Julian Fellowes
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On November 4, 2003, the Alaska Board of Game and Department of Fish and Game decided to reinstitute aircraft-assisted killing as a method of suppressing wolf populations at artificially low levels to try to benefit moose hunters. There have not … Continue reading