As I have finished my last read for the Canadian Reading Challenge 3, my reading thoughts have turned to Canlit to read for the coming year. I've been long thinking of Hugh Hood's New Age Cycle, a 12-volume novel sequence that was apparently inspired by the novel sequences of Proust
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
Alison Goodman's Eon: Dragoneye Reborn Penguin, 2009 "Women have no place in the world of the dragon magic. It is said they bring corruption to the art and do not have the physical strength or depth of character needed to commune with an energy dragon. It is also thought that
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 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
