Antony Trollope's The Warden (1855) Random House, 2003 When a reading friend first got bitten by the Trollope bug a few years back, I rushed out to buy a copy of this novel, the first in his Barsetshire series; of course I intended to read it immediately, but you know
Hope Larson's Mercury Simon & Schuster, 2010 I read Hope Larson's Chiggers in 2008; I'd seen it on a list somewhere (Graphic Novels You Can't Miss, that kind of thing) and I think I was expecting a combination of Little Darlings with an Enid Blyton summer adventure story, and the
John McNally's After the Workshop Counterpoint, 2010 Not just another bookish Friday, nope: this bookish-book Friday comes to you thanks to Sasha and the Silverfish, whose rave post about John McNally's novel ensured its placement -- and her acknowledgement -- in my Bad Blogger's category. The TwentyTen Reading Challenge demands
Kelley Armstrong's Haunted Seal Books, 2005 It begins with Bitten, first published in hardcover in 2001, and is projected to have thirteen books in total, the eleventh having recently been released, Tales of the Otherworld. Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series has taken hold in unexpected and dramatic ways and I am
I took some courses in university in Japanese History and read a fair number of novels then, but, since, I have read Japanese authors spottily. One particular favourite, however, is Banana Yoshimoto and I still have one of her works to look forward to: Hardboiled and Hard Luck Trans. from
