Who Has Seen the Wind

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Saskatchewan for #ReadCanada and book 12 for #15books15weeks

Glad I've read this classic of #canlit now. It is very CanLit, so I'm not surprised I enjoyed it. Somehow I'd never read any W. O. Mitchell before, will definitely read more.

Josee.lit.a.lu.et.lira 👏🏻 for ✅ Saskatchewan 🙂 4y

llwheeler @Josee.a.lu.lit.et.lira 😁 4y

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llwheeler

Who Has Seen the Wind | W. O. Mitchell

I love finding old bookmarks in old books! ...even when it's a vaguely sinister snake 😂

ErinSBecker My favorite recent bookmark find was an old movie ticket from South Africa in the 80s 4y

llwheeler @ErinSBecker oh that's very cool! 4y

Jari-chan This bookmsrl is so nice! What a great found! 4y

llwheeler @Jari-chan 😁 4y

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Come-read-with-me

Who Has Seen the Wind | W. O. Mitchell

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I‘ve been feeling extremely homesick today, so decided to read a Canadian classic. No one paints a better picture of life in the Great Plains than W.O. Mitchell, and this book is one that I have fond memories of. It‘s a piece of home ❤️ Pictured are Saskatchewan (Land of Living Skies) sunsets.

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego ❤🍁❤🍁 5y

Come-read-with-me @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego After what happened in Nova Scotia I needed some Canadian love 🇨🇦 5y

Eggs ❤️Gorgeous ❤️ 5y

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Come-read-with-me @Eggs It is a beautiful place! 😘 5y

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Beautiful. I never before thought of Saskatchewan as a place I should visit, but clearly I was wrong! 5y

Come-read-with-me @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick It‘s not that exciting but it is beautiful! I think everyone should visit, but I‘m highly biased 😘 5y

rather_be_reading those skies are beautiful! 5y

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LibraryCin

Who Has Seen the Wind | W. O. Mitchell

so-so

It was ok. Pretty slow-moving, as nothing big really happens. It was just things that happened in his life as he was growing up. I grew up in Southern Sask (though in the 70s and 80s!), but “recognized” some of the small town prairie happenings (i.e. (sadly) kids trying to get gopher tails; luckily, I never saw it, just heard about it). Overall, it was ok.

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writerlibrarian

Who Has Seen the Wind | W. O. Mitchell

#marchintothe70s
#heartofgold
Doesn't get any more gold than the fields of gold of the prairies. Young is a Canadian Treasure who walk life to the beat of his heart and soul. I went from Gold to prairies in a heartbeat. This novel can't get more prairie gold.
@Cinfhen @Lizpixie

Lizpixie 👍♥️ 6y

Cinfhen Gorgeous 6y

gradcat Pretty wheat 🌾 ❤️ 6y

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merelybookish

Who Has Seen the Wind | W. O. Mitchell

A 1947 Canadian classic about a boy growing up on the Saskatchewan prairies.
#wheatkings #timbittunes @Cinfhen @TheKidUpstairs

Tamra I love prairie settings! 6y

merelybookish @Tamra This is a comig-of-age story. I read it a long time ago but I liked it at the time. 6y

mydearwatson I think a vocal music class I used to work with sang a song titled this. 6y

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Cinfhen Well played 🙌🏻🧡 6y

merelybookish @mydearwatson The book title is from a poem by Christina Rossetti. Maybe that was the song? 6y

mydearwatson Yeah, I think it was! 6y

merelybookish @Cinfhen I picked the wheatiest cover. 🙂 6y

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llwheeler

Who Has Seen the Wind | W. O. Mitchell

Decided to sort through my books and see how much of #192019challenge I'll be able to do from tbr books. Not gonna lie, it's a lot. Also not gonna lie that spending the evening sorting through books is totally my idea of a great #Litsypartyofone

Bklover Dumb question, but what is the #192019challenge? (edited) 7y

llwheeler @Bklover I had to ask too! It's a challenge to read a book published each year from 1920 to 2019 7y

Bklover Thank you!!!! 7y

Marchpane Yesss! Such a great feeling to dig into that TBR 😄 7y

llwheeler @Marchpane it is! 😁 7y

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Roselyn_Reads

Who Has Seen the Wind | W. O. Mitchell

So...this happened near me. Is it bad that I want to go to the library and ask to see this classic in person? Overdue book returned 52 years later....what would you have done? Would you have kept it or return it?

Beckys_Books Probably would have kept it! 7y

OrangeMooseReads I would have kept it. 7y

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shawnmooney

Who Has Seen the Wind | W. O. Mitchell

This 1947 novel about small-town and rural life in my home province, Saskatchewan, Canada is a Canadian classic.
It was made into a movie in the 1970s and the French teacher from my hometown played one of the minor roles.

#RockInMay #SmallTown

Cinfhen

Cinfhen Does the book ring true?!? How much has stayed the same since 1947?!? 8y

shawnmooney @Cinfhen Those are great questions but I read it when I was about 12 years old – it is not YA by any means, but I don't remember it very well. The setting is probably 1940s so probably a lot has changed. 8y

LeahBergen He and his wife lived in Calgary for years (and yet I've still never managed to read it?) 8y

BookHermit I have yet to read this oft mentioned classic. Hopefully no one will come knocking to takeaway my Saskatchewan card 😂 8y

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twohectobooks

Who Has Seen the Wind | W. O. Mitchell

#aprilbookshowers Day 2: #weather

Always find it a bit amusing that these two books by two different Mitchells also have the word "wind" in their titles.

twohectobooks Shout out as well to

The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel

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