Nalo Hopkinson The Salt Roads Warner Books, 2003 Reading Nalo Hopkinson’s work makes me stretch. I don’t mean that literally: I pretzel myself to avoid interruption so I can read just one more story, just one more chapter, really, just one more page. But even when my legs are wedged
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
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
Welcome to my third bookish Friday. Have I mentioned how much fun I'm having with Fridays now? It's not much of a stretch to assume that most people who are writing books are somewhat bookish themselves. But I don't think it's always true. I heard an interview with Katherine Neville
Margaret Atwood's The Door McClelland & Stewart, 2007 Serious about helping me tone my oh-so flabby poetry muscle, Mr. BIP bought me a copy of Margaret Atwood's The Door. Yup, I'm lucky that way. For those who are wondering how the exercise regiment is going, I'm going to the poetry
