Who Has Seen the Wind (New Canadian Library) in CanLit Challenge

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Who Has Seen the Wind

W.O. Mitchell

Start date: March 17, 2014

Finish date: April 1, 2014

Discussion: CanLit Challenge 1939-1967

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Aug 02, 2010 Ibis3 rated it liked it

Shelves: canadian, bildungsroman, cl-lifetime, nature, twentieth-century, modern, 2014, cl-2014, siy27, saskatchewan

I finally read this after bailing on it in grade 9 English almost 3 decades ago (what I recall is that I was bored by it, but it could be I was turned off by the treatment of the animals too).

I can see why, as a kid, I'd have been bored out of my mind. Very little plot, a lot of interior life and natural description, death-death-and-more-death, and far too subtle social and psychological commentary for a 14 year old--even an aware, intelligent one--to fathom. I can appreciate all those things mo ...more

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Mar 30, 2015 Amy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A must read for the small town prairie kids like me. Some things never change but some changes are demonstrated in this nostalgic throw back read. Kids were allowed to wander without the search parties being called! Miss those days. I would recommend to Canadians as it has a real regional feel. The writing is beautiful as well and the title....perfect.

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