Cynthia Flood's The English Stories Biblioasis, 2009 The end of the first story in Cynthia Flood's collection of interconnected stories goes like this: "Sometimes she took off the lid and put her nose right into the box, to inhale." Readers only met Amanda Ellis nine pages ago, so you might think
Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy Tacy (1940) Illus. Lois Lenski Harper Collins, 1968 I first met Betsy, Tacy and Tib when I was nine or ten, but I didn't know them as well as I might have. I kept re-reading the third and fourth volumes of the series and never filled
Giles Blunt's Crime Machine Random House, 2010 John Cardinal and Lise Delorme #5 One bookish project I've been working on since early this summer is a list of series that I'm reading. Series that I'm in the midst of the reading and series that I've been planning to read for
Click image for the Challenge Site Thanks again to Carl for hosting this creepy challenge. My plans weren't that far off; I didn't read the annotated version of Dracula (the smaller pocket-friendly version was more comfortable) and I only read two Daphne duMaurier books, but the only one I missed was
Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead Image Comics (2005-2011) As if I didn't have enough trouble managing my excessive library loans, I came upon this series when I was looking for graphic novels that I thought might entertain Mister B.I.P., when we were Read-a-Thon-ing on Thanksgiving weekend, and after he got
