Dan Vyleta's The Quiet Twin Harper Collins, 2011 Dan Vyleta's The Quiet Twin is like Hitchcock's "Rear Window" gone wrong-er. There's no Technicolor; imagine everyone is dressed in black, and that some individuals conceal an over-sized pocket-knife. Instead of the director cameo, there is a little blonde girl with pigtails
When I first tried to determine the most challenging part of this season's prize-list reading, I was about to stare down the Giller longlist. Yes, you, with your 5318 pages, of which I have read only 4012. I'm not giving up, and I still have a week! And I know
I'm aiming to have all of Margaret Drabble's books on my shelves s-o-m-e-d-a-y. And I can tell myself that's do-able because I actually quite like the old Penguin paperbacks of her work. And, when you find those at booksales, they often only cost $1. Yes, they're usually a
Jacqueline L. Tobin's From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad (with Hettie Jones) Doubleday, 2007 Midnight was the code-name for Detroit; it was the gateway to Canada, the last overtly dangerous stop on the Underground Railroad, which many slaves travelled out of America in pursuit of
When I first mentioned that Fridays were going to be reserved for letters, Laura mentioned Helene Hanff's epistolary classic right off. She reminded me how much I love this collection. And, so, I pulled the volume off the shelf and aimed for a re-read. If you're reading these
