Image Links to Challenge Site Margaret Peterson Haddix's Running out of Time (1995) Aladdin - Simon&Schuster, 1997 The Hunger Games meets "Little House on the Prairie" The Giver meets "The Truman Show" Yup, if I'd met Jessie Keyser in the pages of Running Out of Time when I
Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer Grand Central-Hachette Book Group, 1996 Isn't it funny (funny-dumb) how the simple act of putting a book on a list can transform the idea of reading it from a pleasure into a chore. Even when you're the one listing it? That's what happened with me and
Daniel Alarcón "Second Lives" The New Yorker Fiction: 20 Under 40 August 16/23, 2010 issue Daniel Alarcón's Q&A is one which I enjoyed particularly: for me, it has the perfect blend between playfulness and seriousness. For instance, he doesn't mind saying that the first pieces of fiction to have an
Michael Winter's This All Happened: A Fictional Memoir House of Anansi, 2000 Gabriel English was also the protagonist of Michael Winter's short story collection One Last Good Look. I realized this after I had finished this novel and felt a little badly. As though I'd arrived significantly late for an
Daphne duMaurier's Flight of the Falcon (1965) Penguin, 1969 Virago Modern Classic No. 516 Did you notice that I was complaining about the female characters (and their complete and utter uselessness/sexlessness/vixenishness) in The Birds last week? Oh, I admit, that made me a bit nervous. I was really wondering if
