This is the tie-in to the Bafta award-winning movie. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, this is the story of a wounded soldier, Inman, who escapes the army and tries to make his way home to Cold Mountain and to Ada, the woman he left behind when the war began.

RELEASE NOTES:

I give the book to one of my friends, before I will read it myself.

I just started reading "Cold Mountain", which rings a lot of bells with me because I have been to Balsam Mountain (= Cold Mountain) in North Carolina. The author writes in his credits, "... a writer's retreat in the N C mountains, where much of the book was written. The long view from the porch is the book's presiding spirit." So this is all quite nostalgic for me too, since I used to live in the South and have travelled to most of these places. However, the book also starts on a very violent note (US civil war), so I don't know if I will be able to stick with it throughout. The start has been bitter-sweet, as is so often the case with the South and its history.

Cold Mountain is in many aspects very enjoyable; it has marvelous descriptions of nature, and I particularly liked the passages about life on the farm, the various chores etc. Sometimes I got the impression, however, that the violence (which figures very prominently in the story) is deliberately exaggerated, just to be sure to make it a very violent book. I will now return it to Fanny Natalie, with many thanks.

The book is home again and will have a short rest before going on to someone else. :-)

RELEASE NOTES:

At the English meet up.

I have read the book several years ago and picked up this particular copy for a friend who has not read it yet (as far as I know). I hope to make her a bookcrosser, too - if she likes the book...

A good friend of mine has passed the book on to me,
he got it at a bookcrossers meeting and thought it would be the right book for me. I am going on holiday soon and I will take it with me for rainy days.