June was definitely my quietest reading month this year, but one book is absolutely going to be on my list of 2012 Favourites. A good month! Harper Collins, 2011 And I did *finally* read the first book in Holly Black's Faerie trilogy (Tithe). I aimed to start the second
Audrey Thomas has been nominated twice for the Governor General's Award (for Intertidal Life and Coming Down from Wa, in 1984 and 1995). She has won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in three years, including for The Wild Blue Yonder in 1990. She has published ten novels, seven collections of stories,
The story begins with background about the Qalupalik. Are you acquainted? Readers learn that they have an amauti made of eider duck skins, which they use to kidnap children, and they live in the water, so their skin is like fish scales. Inhabit Media, 2011 Readers -- and
It's no coincidence that a story titled for 'luck' follows one titled for 'providence' in this collection of stories by Alice Munro. Indeed, folks in Hanratty could well have a saying, that one man's luck is another man's providence. Or vice versa. And Rose is never far from Hanratty, from
Once Upon a Time has wrapped up for another year, but I haven't properly mentioned some books, including two terrific books of Inuit folktales which I'll discuss tomorrow. But, first... Cameron Dokey's The World Above is part of the series of retellings from Simon Pulse; there are about twenty retellings in all,
