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I’ve read the first eight of these, and the rest are still on my TBR list. Snowy settings can be so interesting to read about, although I only enjoy heavy snowfalls in real life when I can stay home and don’t have to shovel snow or drive in it.
(Making snow people can be fun, though!)
1. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
3. Little Women (Little Women, #1) by Louisa May Alcott (some scenes were quite snowy, but not all of them).
4. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) by C.S. Lewis
5. The Long Winter (Little House, #6) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
6. White Fang by Jack London
7. The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
8. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
9. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
10. Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman
11. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
12. The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1) by Katherine Arden
Title: Hearth Stories, Winter Solstice 2024, Book 3
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a type of depression that happens during the same season of the year every year. The winter blues are a milder condition similar to this one that has some of the same symptoms and many of the same treatment options, although some people also use that term colloquially to refer to SAD.
Title: Come December
Oh, this week’s topic is easy.
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
Title: Hearth Stories, Winter Solstice 2023
It’s hard to tell which books will become classics. Not every bestseller is actually well written or will continue to affect readers in twenty or fifty years. Likewise, I have no doubt there are some true gems out there that may have had middling to poor sales but will eventually be rediscovered and taught in classrooms all across the world.