Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall's Ghosted Random House 2010 Reasons (Not necessarily good ones) that I didn’t expect to like Ghosted: 1. These words on the flyleaf: gangster, hotdogs, suicide, heroin-smoking, tragedies (bit redundant, eh); 2. Ray Robertson’s blurb beginning with “Lean and mean and...” (though ending “with a surprising amount of heart”);
Good Fiction Guide, Ed. Jane Rogers 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2005. Supernatural by Michael Cox (12 titles) 1. J.S. LeFanu Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery 1851 2. Bram Stoker Dracula 1897 3. M.R. James Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 1904 4. Algernon Blackwood The Listener 1907 5. H.R.
Téa Obreht "Blue Water Djinn" The New Yorker Fiction: 20 Under 40 August 2, 2010 issue We learn in the first paragraph that "Blue Water Djinn" is set in Egypt and a quick online search reveals beautiful images of Ras Um Sid (most of which are sneakily connected to advertisements for
Giles Blunt's Blackfly Season (2005) Seal Books, 2006 It would have been far more appropriate to have read this mystery earlier in the season in, say, Blackfly Season. And it would have been far more appropriate to have read it in closer proximity to the first two books in this
Dick King-Smith's The School Mouse Illus. Cynthia Fisher Hyperion, 1995 The School Mouse is one of the books chosen by Shireen Dodson in her book 100 Books for Girls to Grow On, a list that I've been pulling from since 2008. It seemed the perfect choice for September: Back-to-School. And that's just what
