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Rita Baía ritabaiaca75ca — One of My Favorites Until last week this was my favorite Linda Howard book. Cry No More pushed this book into 2nd place but I still love Wolf and Mary. Mary is a prim and proper schoolteacher who just moved to small town. A seriously small town. She has a student, the Mackenzie boy, who hasn't been to school. It seems he's dropped out. Mary decides that no student will be left behind on her watch and she's going to talk to Joe Mackenzie's father, Wolf. Wolf and Joe live on a mountain, it's snowing, Mary doesn't have the right clothes being from a warm climate, and she has a pretty crappy car. Still, she needs to get her student back in school, so off she goes up the mountain...and promptly gets stuck. Mary was aces. She had a lot of gumption for such a small slip of a woman. It wasn't the kind you usually see in books though where the woman is a spitfire. Mary was just someone who beilieved in people and education and she fought for what she believed in. I know there are readers who didn't like her character but I thought she was a nice change from snippy, angry female characters full of attitude. So, yeah, Mary had my vote. Wolf. I loved Wolf. He was pretty disillusioned but I felt like he had a reason to be. Prison isn't fun and to be wrongfully imprisoned due to bigotry. Well, it beyond sucks and I would be hella angry and distrustful too. Wolf is really an old school romance hero. I enjoyed him in all of his stoic alpha maleness. I can see how some people wouldn't enjoy his character but I liked the way his hardness and disillusionments was in stark contrast to Mary's sheltered rose colored glasses. This book was a sweet love story with an awesome teenage son thrown in to add some family flavor. I love a good family story so that made this book two thousand times better. Love, love, love.

Nick Pappas nick_pappas — Why has it taken me this long to read a book by Dave Eggers? If this one is anything to go by, his writing is crisp and his storytelling abilities so strong that I was sucked in from the very first page. In Dutch there's an expression for a book that you can't put down, and which you just breeze through because reading it is just that effortless: "it reads like a train." This book reads like a train. It's a bit of a genre-bender, because it's clearly a work of fact, but it reads much more like fiction than like journalism (which I appreciated). Eggers made me care about all the characters, especially Zeitoun, so much that when terrible things started happening to them, I became angrier than any book has made me in a long time. This book made me question what kind of country the United States has become, that these kinds of things can happen to such good people in a place that calls itself the land of the free and the home of the brave. And I'm sure that was the very point.

Van Avanzado vavanzadob227 — These are folk stories, somewhere between fact and fiction, from the region of East Anglia, England. Many are ghost stories. You can't take them for literal truth, but often the details preserve folk customs that have died out. This book is now increasingly rare, and the sequel (which is even better), "More Tales from the Fens" is even rarer. I hope someone preserves and reprints these books one day, or the information will be lost.