Blood Lure

by Nevada Barr | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0425183750 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingrahar109wing of Ash Vale, Surrey United Kingdom on 4/19/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by wingrahar109wing from Ash Vale, Surrey United Kingdom on Thursday, April 19, 2007
from amazon:
While studying grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park on the border of Montana and Canada, ranger Anna Pigeon finds herself in the midst of a series of deadly bear attacks that leave her struggling to re-evaluate her own view of nature.

Journal Entry 2 by wingrahar109wing at The Cherry Tree OBCZ in Steventon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Thursday, April 16, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (4/18/2009 UTC) at The Cherry Tree OBCZ in Steventon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom

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Being taken to the meet-up on Saturday afternoon.

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Journal Entry 3 by Molyneux from Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Saturday, May 2, 2009
Passing onto another BookCrosser for an event in Wokingham

Released 14 yrs ago (5/28/2009 UTC) at The Duke's Cut (previously Rosie O'Grady's) in Oxford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 5 by teapot from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, June 13, 2009
I picked it up at the Oxford retreat a couple of weeks ago and forgot to make notes on it.

Journal Entry 6 by teapot at The Tun Bar & Cafe in Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Thursday, May 6, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (5/6/2010 UTC) at The Tun Bar & Cafe in Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom

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Taking to the monthly Edinburgh meetup.

Journal Entry 7 by wingrainbow3wing from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Thursday, May 6, 2010
I picked this book up at the Edinburgh Bookcrossing Meet-up location this evening, by plucking it off the window ledge. Having dithered at home so long tonight, having supper while doing BC admin on a pile of eight books I wanted to release, I missed the BookCrossing troops by the time I eventually arrived.

[The Edinburgh BookCrossing meetings are held every first Thursday of the month, this last having been on Thursday 6 of May 2010. We’re currently hosted by The Tun Café Bar, on Holyrood Road near the Scottish Parliament Buildings. New faces always welcome.]

Journal Entry 8 by wingrainbow3wing from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, May 8, 2010
Just finished a gripping fast read and wanted another and this was to hand on Thursday night as I’d only recently caught it. As I recently finished a thriller with a bear theme, The Wildfire Season by Andrew Pyper, I thought I’d go with the bear theme again. Though quite why that seemed a good idea was a bit of a puzzle as The Wildfire Season was brilliant but scary, and really the last thing I need just now is scary! On second thoughts, I know the prompt, I liked Nevada Barr’s writing and the Anna Pigeon series intrigued me last time I encountered it, in November 2005 when I enjoyed reading Track of the Cat. In particular I found the character insights thought provoking reading.

Book cover: “Of all the wonders of nature evoked in Nevada Barr’s national parks mysteries, none stirs the imagination quite like Ursus horribilis-the grizzly bear. Four hundred pounds or more of muscle. Saw-toothed canines. Four-inch claws. Nasty temper…Even Anna Pigeon, the district park ranger who strides fearlessly through this invigorating series, is forced to re-examine her ‘’spiritual connections’ to all of god’s creatures when she is assigned to work on a scientific project that has her hanging out lures of blood and guts to attract the big grizzles in Glacier National Park. Anna still manages to snatch those occasional moment of solitary communing with nature that made her an inspirational wilderness guide. But there’s no time for meditation when a rampaging bear attacks the researchers’ campsite…” from the NEW YORK TIMES

“Downright spine-tingling… Blood Lure is an exciting read, and its wilderness setting puts it in a league of its own” PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE

Journal Entry 9 by wingrainbow3wing from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Sunday, May 23, 2010
Suspense that catches the breath, what great reading. A convoluted plot which duly headed off in a direction unexpected to me. Barr’s, Anna Pigeon, is a protagonist who forces me to consider my own belief systems as sometimes she is so hard nosed and cold she makes me step onto my back foot. It’s like we are on the same song sheet for much of the book then she offers a fascinating glimpse into a mind that can react so differently from me its arresting.

Couple of thoughts I recognised almost as my own, first this;
Pg. 34 “She doesn’t take shit off anybody.”
Rory meant that as high praise indeed. Anna could tell that not taking shit was of great importance to him. At eighteen that boded ill. Refusing to “take shit” translated in Anna’s experience to taking pride in the character flaws of, impatience, intolerance and insecurity. Any law enforcement officer who refused to “take shit” was not doing his job properly. Or at least not well.

And then on a social note;
Pg. 5 “How do you do?” Anna said mechanically.
“Well, thank you. And yourself?”
A long time had passed since anyone had bothered to finish the old-fashioned greeting formula. Evidently Rory had been raised right - or strictly.

Have a thought to take this north, when or how far remains to be seen. Depends on space in my luggage.

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