“I Am Not Wolf” by Roger Terry
Review by Natalie Smith, regular contributor
I was intrigued first because of this title, and second because of the picture on the front. It’s true that generally you can’t judge a book by its cover, but this one was really interesting to me, and I borrowed it from the library.
Because “I Am Not Wolf” was in the LDS section of our library, I was expecting to read a story about conversion to the LDS Church, and instead I came away with a very different idea of what West Germany was like during the 1970s. This book barely mentions the LDS Church, except to state how the missionaries look from the eyes of an outsider with a very different lifestyle.
“I Am Not Wolf” follows a young American, David, who goes to West Germany and meets his best friend, Wolf. They have some adventures, and while the book is somewhat formulaic in places, it’s also such an interesting study in culture and personality that it keeps the attention. I recommend this one to adults because of their comprehension of repercussions of the Berlin Wall, although it would be appropriate for young adults, as well, especially if they have studied this time period.
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By: Paintgranny,
on 11/20/2007
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I may be surrounded by miscellaneous THINGS but many of them are things from lovely friends and everywhere I look I spot something which makes me smile (Tara and my SOSF partner...am saving your packs for the calm after the storm, I am a chronic hoarder, I'm sorry...)
My table! where did it go?
The only peaceful area, waiting to be packed up tonight and sent down to Your Life Your Style, which opens today in Winchester - good luck to her and all who sail in her!
I will resurface later in week when things are more - manageable. And tidy. Must have some tidy. Tidy is good.
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By: Paintgranny,
on 11/20/2007
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It is a cold, damp and dark November night. The village smells of mist and woodsmoke. The woodburner has been going all day, although it doesn't make my fingers any warmer, up here in the studio. We have been given our first brace of pheasant of the season, and Andy has been in the dank, twilit yard, 'dealing' with them. Sounds of chopping and rinsing. I would have 'dealt with them' myself, but I have not stopped working at one thing or another for weeks now. I have been out of the village twice this month, each time to the woods, as posted previously. Can't remember the last time I went to any town or shops - not including the Co-op down the road. Which is almost a shop.
To anyone who has visited the Hovel and marvelled at my neat and tidy workspace, I display to the whole world, my recent shame...piles of STUFF everywhere as I combine finishing a Christmas tag order/doing an illustration for deadline which crept up on me while doing aforementioned tag order/packing up Etsy and shop orders/trying to find a spare moment to design two more Christmas cards, and update this poor little blog, the latter of which I seem to be achieving anyway. Some readers may recognise one or two things in my little heaps...
To anyone who has visited the Hovel and marvelled at my neat and tidy workspace, I display to the whole world, my recent shame...piles of STUFF everywhere as I combine finishing a Christmas tag order/doing an illustration for deadline which crept up on me while doing aforementioned tag order/packing up Etsy and shop orders/trying to find a spare moment to design two more Christmas cards, and update this poor little blog, the latter of which I seem to be achieving anyway. Some readers may recognise one or two things in my little heaps...
I may be surrounded by miscellaneous THINGS but many of them are things from lovely friends and everywhere I look I spot something which makes me smile (Tara and my SOSF partner...am saving your packs for the calm after the storm, I am a chronic hoarder, I'm sorry...)
My table! where did it go?
(Note to my Hallowe''een SOSF partner - see that chair in the bottom right hand corner? With the bluey picture on? Under that is my lovely lovely box, you can just see it peeking out beneathwhich I keep in sight (usually) to spur me on...)
The only peaceful area, waiting to be packed up tonight and sent down to Your Life Your Style, which opens today in Winchester - good luck to her and all who sail in her!
I will resurface later in week when things are more - manageable. And tidy. Must have some tidy. Tidy is good.
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I had to stop and comment on the phrase "LDS section of the library". Do they really have a section with just LDS books? Is this section for LDS fiction or for LDS nonfiction or for both? That is just the weirdest thing I've ever heard! (LDS in Chicago)
Haha. Rebecca, I'm not the one that wrote this review, but being LDS in UT, I can answer that, yes, there is an LDS fiction section AND an LDS non-fiction section in my local library. :)
Must be nice to be able to check out LDS fiction/non fiction from the library.
I didn't even stop to think about that phrase -- I guess I've lived in UT long enough, eh? So, in Provo I know there's both sections, but here in little old Springville there's just a general LDS fiction section. It has books by LDS authors, regardless of content; in other words, not just books published by Deseret Book and Covenant. I have mixed feelings about this, as there is one LDS author in general that I feel can be a little too loose on his morals that's included in this section, but I really enjoy checking out what the library's gotten in that's new. I asked the librarians about why they arranged things this way, and they said that the most books checked out from our library are the ones by LDS authors.