Hiromi Goto's Half World Penguin Books, 2009 I hope you're not disappointed to see another instance of Spelling It Out here, so soon after that on Sarah Waters, but I have fallen under yet another BookSpell. I admit, I do tend to respond positively to an author's work when I
Click the beautiful image for the Challenge Site Hiromi Goto's The Water of Possibility Coteau Books, 2002 A few weeks ago, I re-read Janet Lunn's 1981 children's novel The Root Cellar. In her novel, the root cellar is a portal to another time and Rose's travels through it
Click Melissa Nucera's beautiful image for the Once Upon a Time Challenge Site For the past several Saturdays I have been writing about kidlit and the YA novels that Lizzie Skurnick's Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading inspired me to re-read. (I love re-reading, but
It's partly because of the beautiful image, that I first saw posted here, and partly because I so recently enjoyed re-reading some childhood fantasy favourites, and partly because I've recently finished two other reading challenges for the year (Canada Reads and Canada Reads Independently), and partly because in taking a
