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Yes, I am the same Astilbe who submitted this topic to Jana. I was thrilled to learn she picked it.

All of the books on this list feature blizzards and snowstorms. I don’t know about all of you, but I like reading about blizzards and snowstorms while they are happening so long as I’m tucked safely at home and don’t need to go anywhere until the roads are ploughed and okay for travelling on again.

1. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

2.  The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic by Gay Salisbury

3. The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin

4. Let It Snow by John Green

5. Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher

6. A Christmas Blizzard by Garrison Keillor

7. The Day After Tomorrow by Whitley Strieber

8. Ghost Story by Peter Straub

9.Chance of a Ghost (Haunted Guesthouse Mystery, #4) by E.J. Copperman

10.Who Stole Stonehenge? by Leela Cutter

Do you also like to read books about bad weather while the weather is snowy or stormy where you live?

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To echo last week’s ice and snow theme, this week I will be sharing ten books that are set in either the North Pole or the South Pole.

Sometimes Antarctica will appear instead, but I think that’s close enough to count.

If it’s going to be cold and snowy for the next four months for me, why not read about places that are even colder and snowier?

1.Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski

2.The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole by Mark Bowen

3. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson by Matthew A. Henson

4.Arctic Autumn: A Journey to Season’s Edge by Pete Dunne

5. Race to the South Pole by Roald Amudsen

6. The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith Hooper

7. Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielsen

8. The Big Bang Symphony: A Novel of Antarctica by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

9. Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven

10. Improbable Eden: The Dry Valleys of Antarctica by Bill Green

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This is the time of year when my part of the world is in flux.  The weather is generally chilly and windy, but we don’t always know what will be on the ground other than autumn leaves. Will everything be covered in a thin – or thick – layer of ice? Maybe it will be cold and rainy instead? Perhaps we will have a few flakes of snow gently falling from the sky but otherwise be fairly dry? Will we have a surprise blizzard?

You never know which one of these options might occur even if climate change is making the warmer days where you can go outside with a light winter jacket but not a scarf, gloves, or snow boots more likely and the blizzards less likely than they used to be.

Here are ten book covers filled with snow and ice.

1. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

2. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

3.Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

4. The Terror by Dan Simmons

5. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

6. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

7. Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

8. The Ice Storm by Rick Moody

9.Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

10. Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (Calvin and Hobbes, #7) by Bill Wattenson

(Oh, how I miss reading Calvin and Hobbes).

If you live in a cold place, stay warm!