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
Louise Penny's Still Life Headline, 2005 Some of you might recall my eye-rolling, woulda-been-snarky-if-I-wasn't-so-darned-Canadian letter to The Public Library late-spring this year. I offer this post to balance the scales, for there is another staff member there whom I actually look forward to seeing behind the counter. She started a conversation
