Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing Harper Collins, 1997 This read is the one that most excited me when I selected it for the Once Upon a Time Challenge; it's been sitting on my shelves for more than ten years. Sure, I've been to the Royal Ontario Museum's Bat Cave a handful of
Jeremy Mercer's Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. St. Martin's Press, 2005 Well, how can you not like a book that begins with "It was a grey winter Sunday when I came to the bookstore." What better sort of grey winter Sunday could make such
Joan Barfoot's Abra McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1978 Edition shown: Women's Press (UK) 1999 The first Joan Barfoot novel that I read was Family News (1989), dating to a time when I only irregularly noted the books that I read in a coilbound exercise book, so I know that I sought out
Well, I can't complain. Although I found the audio version of Barbara Kingsolver's work very tedious listening, I don't think there's any question of the sophisticated storytelling in The Lacuna. (After 5 hours of listening, I realized that I wasn't going to adjust to her delivery style, but I did
Jeffrey Eugenides' "Extreme Solitude" The New Yorker - June 7, 2010 issue There has been some chatter about magazine subscriptions lately (at Inklings and Pickle Me This) and that's gotten me feeling even a little more guilty about not keeping up with my "New Yorker" issues (as opposed to the
