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This pithy guide offers advice on everything necessary to be a true Alaskan, or to at least look the part. Designed in a friendly handbook format, the book blends important facts with anecdotes about the author’s own experiences surviving in Alaska's frozen expanses. Writing in a down-to-earth, droll style, author Brookelyn Bellinger covers such topics as winter survival skills, regional fashion, extreme sports, and dating tips, and answers those pressing questions like how to start that long-delayed career in dog mushing.
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Great book for anyone going to Alaska.......2007-09-12
Either for vacation or to live permanently, this book is an insight into the great state of Alaska. Brookelyn did a great job combining humor, wit and truth to some serious subjects that are overlooked from the lowerfortyeightians. Enjoy the book..
Don't move to Alaska without this!.......2007-09-06
I really enjoyed reading this book, after I returned home from my first trip to Alaska (in the summer, of course). Alaska is spectacular, but many of us harbor romantic ideas about what it is really like to live in the wilderness. This book will absolutely bring you back to earth, with wit and humor, and will educate you on living in lonliness, darkness and cold! A great beach read on a HOT day.
It's Fun Being An Alaskan.......2007-08-30
Boy, Brookelyn Bellinger makes being an Alaskan sound like lots of fun.
She also makes Alaskans sound like lots of drunks, but ...
Bellinger's book, "The Frozen Toe Guide to Real Alaska Livin'," is a compendium of anecdotes, how-to information, advice and snarky commentary on living in the 49th State. From its do-it-yourself acknowledgement, which I found quite amusing, to the off-the-cuff introduction ("I figured most people would skip over the introduction - I usually do ...") and beyond, Bellinger throws zingers right and left on subjects as diverse as working in Alaska, dressing in Alaska and not going insane in Alaska.
Bellinger came to Alaska as a 19-year-old Minnesotan dreaming of adventure. She'd long thought she belonged here, she tells us, because it is "... a place where all kinds of oddballs fit in."
But seriously, she actually longed for the independence, adventure, wide-open spaces and "plethora of espresso stands.
Landing here with $200 and a backpack, she managed to find two jobs right off - working at a B&B in exchange for food and a piece of ground on which to pitch a tent, and selling fishing tackle and other "fish-killing" accoutrements.
Bellinger has had quite the gamut of Alaskan experiences, and she's not shy about telling us about them - successes and failures alike. She talks about the time she and her husband took on a homestead caretaking job on Unimak Island for the winter. Sharing excerpts from her diary (with added "If I knew then what I know now" comments), Bellinger carries us through a winter of too much fish, too much wind and not enough beer. She also shares the life lessons learned - if you're going to go for seven months of isolation, choose someplace with trees (for firewood) and "large animals to kill for meat." Her husband, however, would never do it again. "Seven months is a long time to be isolated."
Bellinger picks up a lot of what attracts most of us to this place. The outdoor life, of course - hunting, fishing, dog mushing, road trips to extremely civilization-challenged places - but she also mentions the intangibles as well. The lack of concern over fashion and following trends and keeping warm versus looking good are my favorite part of being Alaskan, although I've yet to go for the extreme (read "formal") Carhartt look Bellinger advocates.
I definitely enjoyed the "Twelve Simple Ways to Look the Part." These rules should be read to all newcomers as they deplane or deboat or de-car, because, frankly, it would make their lives much simpler. Bellinger tells us to lose all our suits, unless we want them for Halloween, and to keep the swimsuit for the PFD vacations to Hawaii. "Showers and clean clothes are overrated;" fur is the best way to stay warm and immediately buy stock in Carhartts.
But Bellinger also celebrates the spirit of Alaska: the ability to fend for oneself in any situation, the breathtaking beauty of the natural surroundings and the challenge of facing (and sometimes) beating Mother Nature at her worst - and her "children." I particularly enjoyed reading about wild animal attacks - especially the killer porcupine. Oh, yeah, she talks about mean moose and biting bears as well.
Inevitably, the "dry cabin" comes up, because, I suppose, most Outsiders think we all live in log cabins with no plumbing. There's advice on that as well, and some prophecy - eventually, you get used to biting cold on your bare cheeks as you dash out to the john in minus-40 weather.
Bellinger's guide to life here in the Frozen North has a bit of a magazine look to it - lots of sidebars and fact boxes, lists of "resources" and recipes tucked here and there. In a couple of places, she throws in a Q&A session with a noted Alaskan. (Conflict of Interest note: I really don't like the Q&A format - seems rather lazy to me. But I digress.)
"The Frozen Toe Guide" is fun to read, an enjoyable way to spend a rainy afternoon in the armchair. Bellinger's style is sarcastic and smart-aleky, with a class-clown tone of voice that makes fun of herself as much as anything else. She writes well, and obviously knows of what she writes.
If I have a complaint, it's that she's not sure what this book is supposed to be - a how-to guide, a tongue-in-cheek memoir or what. The book starts out so jokingly (I mean, really, fill-in-the-blanks acknowledgements, while hilarious, aren't meant to be taken seriously. Are they?), it's hard to pull back into serious mode. And when Bellinger does throw in cautions ("Just have a good time and be safe out there."), inevitably, she tacks on a smart remark ("Always carry a gun."). It's jarring, this juxtaposition of sarcasm and seriousness.
Don't get me wrong - I loved this book. It's also probably something I'll send off to the relatives at Christmas so they see how much fun I'm having. And how much we drink up here, but you'll have to read the book to see what I mean.
Great Spring/Summer Reading.......2007-05-18
There are plenty of coffee table and rather bland tourist kind of books about Alaska. An ample supply of glacier cruises, salmon bakes and float planes flying in front of mountains .
But as an Arctic Alaskan I know that many "Outsiders" would like more. Well here it is! Author Brookelyn Bellinger knows the real Alaska. She lives without running water and well beyond our "big city" of Anchorage.
To become the Alaska woman, she advises, "Being able to butcher a moose is a skill that will be able to get you a date."
And to become the Alaska man, "Once in a while you should make your dog team sleep on the floor."
With two Greenland Huskies in our household, I don't know if I could go that far!
Bellinger understands that Alaskan men rarely consider washing their Carhartts bib top overalls. And that all the cake and ice cream in the world won't make the winters any shorter.
Read this book and learn the importance of duct tape, outhouses/honey buckets and (where I live) lots of dog hair,ice/mud and gravel all over the house and car or truck!
Enjoy!
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It's 1816 and Remembrance "Mem" Nye and her family are going through a cold, hard summer in their new home in western New York. There's barely any food since Papa's crops were destroyed by the late
season frosts. Mem's mama has never gotten used to their new home. It's even harder for her to cope after she gives birth to baby Lily. Papa puts Mem in charge of caring for the baby, her younger brother, and their sick Mama. Though Mem struggles, it's hard to do the chores and watch them every moment. Then the worst happens . . . one stormy night Mama and Lily are gone.
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FROZEN SUMMER.......2006-05-09
Frozen Summer by Mary Jane Auch is about a young girl named, Remembrance Nye and her family. They have recently moved to the Genesee Country in western New York in search for a better life. Remembrance is a very young girl who feels as though she is more of a burden than a helper. But, when Remembrance's mother has a baby and becomes unfit, she tries to take on the responsibilities of taking care of her newborn sister, her little brother, cooking, and cleaning. "Mem' also is determined to nurse her mother back to her usual self. Things become even worse for Mem when her mother disappears with the baby, Lily, on a stormy night. Mem believes that it is her duty to bring her mother and her baby sister back home safely.
I really liked this book and thought that it was is very appealing because it tells about a little girl who feels left out and too young to know anything, but when things get bad everything depends on her.
Always Time for Neighbors.......2004-12-01
Twelve-year-old Remembrance Nye (Mem to her family) seems clumsy and more a burden than a helper when Mama gives birth to a baby sister in their primitive one-room cabin in the wilderness of Western New York State in 1816. But Mama is terribly homesick for her family in Connecticut; she all but ignores the pitiful baby in her private anguish. Gradually Mem realizes that her mother's mind is at risk; Mrs. Nye wanders in and out of reality and sobs in loneliness because her pioneering husband forced her to sacrfice all the comforts of home for the
loneliness and social desolation of the Genesee Valley.
The odd weather with sudden freezing spells and even snow in June echoes the family's sense of doom. Many pioneers assume that blame God is meting out just punishment for sinners everywhere, thought a few suggest it was Ben Franklin's tampering with the flow of electricity which precipitated such disaster, as crops are lost and famine looms as a grim possibility. How can Mem balance caring for an infant sister whom her mother seems to reject, assume all the woman's chores of tending house and go to school as well--for she wishes to become a school teacher herself someday?
Not all strangers are as dangerous as the local busybody, but the worst threat to the family is the instability of Mrs. Nye. Mem comes of age that frozen summer, when the crops fail and she loses the benefit of maternal contact. As one kind neighbor explains it: the only way to survive in a frontier settlement is through cooperation and charity toward one's neighbors, even those you don't really know. It truly takes a community to raise one child. At the conclusion of this solemn historical novel the author explains how she came to write this story, sharing her research into the causes and reactions to the frozen summer of 1816. A sobering read for anyone studying the early Eastern frontier.
Not "Little House" that's for sure!.......2003-06-18
This is the second book in the trilogy I've read and I must say it's a bit bleak. It was assigned to my 10 year old's class (mainly because we live in "Genesee Country") and I'm glad I read it first. Although rich in historical accuracy, Mem's mother's depression is a real turn off for some younger children. I found both this book and "The Journey To Nowhere" quite morose with little joy to redeem them. I did enjoy it as an adult, but they are written with kids in mind and their harshness can be quite unsettling.
Please help mama (she is haveing spills).......2003-03-15
The book Frozen Summer is sad, eventful, and exciting . It's about a girl named Rememberance Nye. Her family had moved to New York the year before, and her mother had just given birth to a baby girl named Lily in the middle of an unusual blizard in the middle of June. A summer frost killed all of their crops, and all that remained were sweet peas. Rememberance's (Mem's) mother started having unusual spills. She wasn't in the proper condition to take care of a new baby. Mem had to give up going to school so she could take care of her mother, brother, and little sister.
My favorite part was when Mem's teacher came to live with mem's family and helped take care of baby Lily. I hope you will read this book by Mary Jane Auch, I believe you will enjoy it as I have.
Frozen Summer.......2001-04-27
Have you every thought about how life was like back in the 1800's? Well, if you would like to experience that, then you should read Frozen Summer. The story is about a family that face hardships after hardships. The family's first hardship is when they leave from their family. Then a baby girl is born and the mother gets sick. She can't tend for the baby and the little boy so the main character has to take care of her sister and brother and also the house work. This is truly a good story if you are up to reading a story that will make you like your life 100% more.
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Interesting Book by a "Character".......2004-12-08
Bill Lewis was well known by all of us here in North Pole. He was quite a character - well liked, a perenially candidate for public office but never winning election, and quite a character also known for his magical handling of his famed lariat doing rope tricks. This book is chock full of stories about interesting, colorful characters (mostly affiliated with the union trades)that are just like Bill was - "Unique". The book gves a geat insight into some great people.
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I first became interested in Marie Bashkirtseff and her diary after I read about her in Anais Nin's early diary! haha. Anais Nin seemed to be deeply inspired by Marie, so I too wanted to know more about her. Reading her journals makes you feel like you really know her, like you're really there spying and eavesdropping, an invisible observer, seeing all these events in her life unfold, probing her deepest thoughts and desires. At least that's how I felt. And as a young man, I guess I find myself drawn to these 19th century heroines, with their intriguing personalities, strong intellects, and passionate love-affairs. I'd love to see Marie's paintings. Are they in the Louvre or Musee d'Orsay? I heard many of them were destroyed in the air-raid bombings of World War 2, unfortunately. Was she a Classicist or Realist? It seems she was very good, but just how good? What's her rank among the great artists of her day? And would she have been even greater had she lived to fulfill her full potential? And it's too bad we'll never know what her voice sounded like, apparently she was a fine singer too. I was also pleased to read that Marie got a little chubby in her final years. I'm into slightly plump chicks haha.
I didn't really understand the "half the face showing" for the front cover iof this book. I think it would've looked better with her whole face. Oh, and the title gives me a wry smile. I was totally enamoured with Marie, the only thing I found a bit off-putting was her pride and shallow social ambition, eg. to marry for status and money. That's all she seems to care about, besides being noticed and adored. But she also shows that she has many positive qualities and these far outweigh the negative. When it comes to her love-life, she had a few suitors but from what I gather, she doesn't seem to have ever fallen in love, even though she occasionally used the term loosely with regard to men like Audiffret, Antonelli, or her childish teenage infatuation with the Duke of Hamilton. It even appears that when she died a month shy of her 26th birthday, she died a virgin.
Anyway, a few years ago I was aquainted with Katherine Kernberger, who along with her mother translated this Volume One of Marie Bashkirtseff's diaries. She kindly sent me the as yet unpublished diaries that would make up a second volume, the rest of the diaries. Reading this manuscript was an amazing experience. I literally put my own life on hold for weeks and just got lost in the intriguing life of a pretty, talented, exceptional, young woman named Marie Bashkirtseff. I do hope this second volume of Marie's diaries will be published soon, so that eager readers will be able to see the rest of her true story.
Oh, one other thing. Since reading the diaries, I've discovered that Marie's close friend in her final days, the painter Jules Bastein-Lepage, with whom she was so obsessed, actually died the same year as her--1884. It must have been very soon after, perhaps prompted by Marie's own death? In the end he was ill and bed-ridden, and she would sit with him in bed, keeping him company. I wonder if he felt about her the same way she felt about him. What a tragedy if they had both been in love with each other and yet neither of them knew it! And to die in such a short space of time apart! I wish someone could tell me something about Marie's funeral--the public reaction, people who attended, where she's buried, etc? There's an old bio by a Stanley Jackson called "Guy de Maupassant"; the chapter titled "Moths" sheds some interesting light on Marie and her correspondence with literary men. It's interesting to note the things she left out of her diary. And she was a painter, so why was she writing to novelists rather than painters like Renoir and Monet?? She had a very interesting letter correspondence with the famed fiction writer Guy de Maupassant. There's a tiny book called "I Kiss Your Hands" which has all their letters to each other. It's very interesting. But it ends very vaguely, a letter by Maupassant offering to meet her (sort of) at a theatre, and then nothing. No surviving response. This was close to the time that Marie died though, of tuberculosis. If you hunger for more on Marie, I encourage you to read this correspondence.
David Rehak
author of "A Young Girl's Crimes"
Very interesting book.......2004-05-04
I am not quite finished with the book and am very much enjoying it. I cannot wait to see the next volume and am happy to hear it will be published soon. The book is a fascinating insight into the everyday lives of Marie and her family in the 1800's.
Extraordinary journal.......2000-02-27
Ever since 1980, when I first read the French version of this diary, I have been hooked. It was indeed, as Marie Bashkirtseff herself wrote, a book in which she wrote herself down, all her dreams, her good and bad behavior, the good and the bad traits of her character. Later I learned that the diary had been badly cut by editors, first in Doris Langley Moore's book on Marie, later in the very interesting documentary by Colette Cosnier (1985) Since that time I had the (slight) hope that the diary would appear uncut. I am very glad that Phyllis and Katherine Kernberger took up this job and give us now the first half of the diary. They have done it exceptionally well (even before the uncut French edition which is now underway), and Chronicle books have taken care to make the book look right. I understand why some people find this first volume boring, but they are wrong however, particularly when we interpret it in the light of the tragic events to come in its sequel. I hope the 2nd volume will appear soon. I am a real fan: I went to Paris to visit the streets mentioned in the book (and her enormous tomb), I even went to her birthplace in Ukraine!
Boring.......2000-01-15
This book nearly bored me to tears. Unless you are interested in reading a very self-centered girl's angst, I'd say skip it.
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