Sister Mary Rose was plump and youngish; she taught the class and was obviously trying to be progressive. Sister Mary Dolores was thin and oldish; she apparently came along to chaperone Sister Mary Rose, and her attitude seemed to be that if God had wanted us to know about the weather he would have informed St. Thomas Aquinas.

I am giving Snow Storm a very well deserved five plus stars. I recommend it for readers who enjoy reading fun mysteries. I would love to read more like this one by Mike Alger in the near future. I found that this one is most definitely not one to be missed. Absolutely amazing!… hard to put down. I felt what the characters felt, as if I were right there watching it all’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If I lived in a colder climate, this is 100% how I would spend my free time in December, January and February. (The irony is I’m writing this as Texas is experiencing historic cold weather…so cold that I currently do not have running water.) I have known of Mike Alger from previous audiobooks I have listened to when he was a narrator and excited to have the opportunity to read his own tale he has written, Snow Storm. I was not disappointed. I enjoyed taking this adventure with weatherman Greg O'Brien. There were a few of his scenes that I found to be comical. It made for a fun and entertaining mystery. It was not one that was easily predictable and forcing me to keep listening on to see how it would all turn out for him. I thought it was a fabulous and delightful book to read. I could not help to have it all read in one day. What awaits them at the next exit, however, is nothing they could have imagined. Around an empty town square, fires burn, cars are abandoned., storefronts are smashed. And there is no one to be seen—for now…George Stewart knows things. And it shows. He knows the classics, and he knows the procedure for splicing high-tension power lines. He knows the flood weirs of Sacramento and a little Whitman. And he knows weather.

Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can offer us, in the peace it can provide - feelings stemming ultimately from our own unbreakable links to nature, which mean that we cannot be fully human if we are separate from it.

Analysis of Poetic Devices Used in “The Snow-Storm”

Of special note: an unnamed junior meteorologist names the titular mega storm "Maria". In a 1947 reprint, the author wrote a forward explaining that "The soft Spanish pronunciation is fine for some heroines, but our Maria here is too big for any man to embrace and much too boisterous." So the name was to be pronounced with a "rye" in the middle, not as in the traditional Spanish pronunciation. So when Storm more-or-less inspired the musical and movie Paint Your Wagon, it included the song They Call the Wind Maria, pronounced as the author of Storm intended. And to wrap up the special note, this is the origin of Mariah Carey’s name (also quite big and boisterous?). There have been very few books that I have seen in my lifetime that have been wordless, the most reognisable to me is The Snowman. Once Upon a Snowstorm author/illustrator Richard Johnson has delved into this realm and created a visually, enchanting masterpiece that takes you on a journey with a father and his son where they live in a cabin in the woods.

George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his only science fiction novel Earth Abides (1949), a post-apocalyptic novel, for which he won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951. It was dramatized on radio's Escape and inspired Stephen King's The Stand. Beautiful yet deadly, with their cliffs, crevasses and avalanches, the high mountains seemed a perfect setting for a thriller. Year later, as I sat down to try to write one, a news headline caught my eye. Climbers in Saas Fee, Switzerland, had spotted a hand and two shoes protruding from a glacier. Rescue teams were called in and uncovered the body of a man who’d gone missing thirty years earlier. The Snow-Storm”, As a Representative of Natural Beauty: The poet details grand arrival and noticeable departure of the snowstorm. The magnificent arrival of the storm is described as if an army is going to have a victorious walk over the field. The speaker states how it hinders people from continuing the normal activities of their lives. It delays the postman’s feet, shuts the friends’ visits, and stops the travelers. Later, the exalted speaker calls everyone to come and appreciate the striking art of nature. To him, the snowstorm is a genius artist, capable of reshaping the historical structures. literary devices are tools that enable the writers to present their ideas, emotions, and feelings by using persuasive language. Ralph Waldo Emerson has employed some literary devices in this poem to show the power of nature. The analysis of some of the literary devices used in this poem has been given below. As a crab moves on the ocean-bottom, but is of the water, so man rests his feet upon the earth--but lives in the air. Man thinks of the crab as a water-animal; illogically and curiously, he calls himself a creature of the land.Major Themes in “The Snow-Storm”: Power of nature and beauty are the major themes of this poem. The poet describes two things in it; difficulties people face in the snowy weather and the serenity they feel while looking at the art left on the landmarks after a snowstorm. He discusses the devastating qualities of a snowstorm and also talks about its fanciful, elegant, and attractive attributes. He has actually used the snowstorm as a symbol of obstacles and challenges in life that do not last forever.

Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children’s toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can’t explain. And then… nothing. When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger’s gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident, a crash in the snow. He claims he saved her. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, trapping them together, and there’s nothing she can do but wait. Some reviewers will claim, the storm in "The Storm" is a character. But it is not. It is God and the machine, impassive and unstoppable. It's narrative arc is birth-maturity-death and even spawns a "child", but Stewart really isn't fully committed to this trope because he, like anyone who spends enough time thinking and observing nature, knows that while nature is the life force, it is cruel and indifferent, yielding rarely, and even then only to a mountain range.Anaphora: It refers to the repetition of a word, phrase, or an expression. For example, the word ‘farmer’s’ is repeated in the second stanza of the poem to emphasize his point. As a crab moves on the ocean-bottom, but is of the water, so man rests his feet upon the earth - but lives in the air. Man thinks of the crab as a water-animal; illogically and curiously, he calls himself a creature of the land.' Shari Lapena’s An Unwanted Guest is set in the Catskill Mountains. A cozy old-fashioned lodge with woodburning fireplaces and a grand staircase seems the perfect place for a romantic weekend getaway. Until a body is found at the bottom of the stairs. But a deadly ice storm rages outside, trapping the guests in the building and cutting off the power. The little boy is looked after by a bear, after sharing with him a sweet! They play and paint together and then set off to find Dad. Friendships have been made and the story closes with a warmer, more summery scene of the animals meeting together. Emily, a woman haunted by her past, only wants to do her job and be the best mother possible. But in a world where mortality means nothing, where guns are drawn in fear and nobody seems safe anymore – at what cost will this pursuit come? And through it all, the soon-to-be-dead remain silent, ever-smiling. Such is their curse.