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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Ten notable fictional works on winter sports

At the Guardian John Dugdale tagged ten notable fictional works on winter sports, including:
Louisa May Alcott – speed skating

In Little Women, Laurie and Jo race on a frozen river, ignoring Amy who falls through the ice.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Little Women also appears among Melissa Albert's five favorite YA books that might make one cry, Anjelica Huston's seven favorite coming-of-age books, Bidisha's ten top books about women, Katherine Rundell's top ten descriptions of food in fiction, Gwyneth Rees's ten top books about siblings, Maya Angelou's 6 favorite books, Tim Lewis's ten best Christmas lunches in literature, and on the Observer's list of the ten best fictional mothers, Eleanor Birne's top ten list of books on motherhood, Erin Blakemore's list of five gutsy heroines to channel on an off day, Kate Saunders' critic's chart of mothers and daughters in literature, and Zoë Heller's list of five memorable portraits of sisters. It is a book that disappointed Geraldine Brooks on re-reading.

--Marshal Zeringue
Posted by Marshal Zeringue at 1:05 PM
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