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| 1.Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest by: Rudy Henry Wiebe 2007-11 |
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| From the first page, I could see why "Of This Earth" won the Charles Taylor Prize. I had read two of Rudy Wiebe's other books, "Stolen Life" and "Peace Shall Destroy Many", and thought them well written, but the writing in this book is amazing! It's original and intricate and yet it never distracts or confuses, painting the scenes of a life so clearly that the reader is standing right beside young Rudy as he runs under the belly of a draft horse or sits at the kindergarten table in a one-room school ... Read More: |
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| 2.Sweeter Than All The World by: Rudy Wiebe September 17, 2002 |
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| I read this book because it was recommended on Amazon's page for _The Russländer_ by Sandra Birdsell. I really enjoyed that book, so I thought that I would give "Sweeter Than All the World" a try. And, as the title of my review says, "Sweeter" wasn't exactly what I was expecting. One thing I enjoy in any novel, especially a "historical" one (in addition to a good story) is getting a good feel of what it was like to live at that particular time and place. "Sweeter Than All the World" has ... Read More: |
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| 3.Peace Shall Destroy Many by: Rudy Wiebe October 16, 2001 |
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| PSDM tells the story of Thom Wiens, a young Mennonite man struggling to make sense of his faith in a world of increasing complexity. Set in the rural town of Wapiti, Saskatchewan, during WWII, the relationship of peace and Christianity stands as the central theme of the book. As the other reviews show, this is a character (and not plot) driven book. The belief in peace and nonviolence is probably the central and most compelling aspect of Anabaptist belief. While other Christian traditions place ... Read More: |
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| 4.The Mad Trapper by: Rudy Wiebe January 29, 2003 |
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| This novel is based on an incident during the winter of 1932, when a trapper in the NWT, Canada by the name of "Albert Johnson" led the RCMP on a epic cross-country chase through the Canadian arctic. Although a media sensation, the story soon faded to obscurity; only to be resurrected by Dick North, a small-town newspaper editor, in his book The Mad Trapper of Rat River, and the dubious Thomas P. Kelley in his The Rat River Trapper. Both published in 1972. Soon afterwards, Saskatoon-based Granicus Films began ... Read More: |
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| 5.Stolen Life: Journey Of A Cree Woman by: Rudy Wiebe September 15, 2000 |
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| I chose this book to read for a review assignment, and I must say, I'm glad I chose it. It is the life-story of a woman, the hardships she had to face throughout her life, as seen through her eyes. The book also shows how the judicial system, which we often view as having distinct boundaries, and as having the final hand in society, cannot ultimately be seen as such. While others may view Yvonne Johnson as a "cold-blooded criminal" and her subsequent novel as a "commercial enterprise", it is rather that this book ... Read More: |
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| 6.River Of Stone by: Rudy Wiebe May 04, 1995 |
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| I chose this book to read for a review assignment, and I must say, I'm glad I chose it. It is the life-story of a woman, the hardships she had to face throughout her life, as seen through her eyes. The book also shows how the judicial system, which we often view as having distinct boundaries, and as having the final hand in society, cannot ultimately be seen as such. While others may view Yvonne Johnson as a "cold-blooded criminal" and her subsequent novel as a "commercial enterprise", it is rather that this book ... Read More: |
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| 7.The Blue Mountains of China by: Rudy Wiebe 1970 |
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| .. seems to have nothing to do with the text. But the author is Rudy Wiebe, not Eva Marie Kröller!!!
You have to know Mennonite history to understand the book at all, especially since RW seems to have been bound and determined to become the James Joyce of Mennonite authors. Most of the book is written as introspection, so I can't help you with the meanings of the many sentence fragments, but I can at least do what RW should have done, namely, provide a little dictionary' of a few Mennonite (Plat-) dialect terms. ... Read More: |
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| 8.Story Makers by: Rudy Henry Wiebe 1989-11 |
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| .. seems to have nothing to do with the text. But the author is Rudy Wiebe, not Eva Marie Kröller!!!
You have to know Mennonite history to understand the book at all, especially since RW seems to have been bound and determined to become the James Joyce of Mennonite authors. Most of the book is written as introspection, so I can't help you with the meanings of the many sentence fragments, but I can at least do what RW should have done, namely, provide a little dictionary' of a few Mennonite (Plat-) dialect terms. ... Read More: |
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| 9.Temptations Of Big Bear: A Novel by: Rudy Wiebe September 15, 2000 |
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| .. seems to have nothing to do with the text. But the author is Rudy Wiebe, not Eva Marie Kröller!!!
You have to know Mennonite history to understand the book at all, especially since RW seems to have been bound and determined to become the James Joyce of Mennonite authors. Most of the book is written as introspection, so I can't help you with the meanings of the many sentence fragments, but I can at least do what RW should have done, namely, provide a little dictionary' of a few Mennonite (Plat-) dialect terms. ... Read More: |
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| 10.A Discovery Of Strangers by: Rudy Wiebe September 26, 1995 |
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| This is an excellent fictional account of Franklin's *overland* expedition to the Arctic Ocean. Through the device of multiple narration, it presents us with both the Aboriginal and European perspective on the events. Wiebe did his homework: the novel is solidly based on the first-hand accounts of Franklin, Back, Hearne, and others. The influence of Faulkner is evident in narrative style, prose style and theme. Faulkner's great story The Bear was clearly an influence |
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