Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (2007) Art by Ellen Forney Little Brown, 2009 A few years ago I saw Sherman Alexie at a ridiculously underattended reading in a small Toronto bookstore on a fine Friday night in summer. I remember wondering if there wasn't something
Neil Gaiman's Odd and the Frost Giants Harper Collins, 2009 Everything I know about Norse mythology, I learned from playing World of Warcraft's Burning Crusade. Okay, maybe I picked up a little from Jane Smiley too. But overall, it's a weak spot with me, my knowledge limited to daily quests
Felice Holman's Slake's Limbo (1974) Aladdin Books, 1986 The idea of people living underground (you know, some call them "mole people", those making homes and living out their lives in storm drains and subway networks, underground sections of major cities) has fascinated me since I first heard of the idea
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
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
