Last week I read Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, the English translation of the first book of an enormously popular series of Japanese fantasy novels. Enjoyed it a lot–really interesting world (based loosely on medieval Japan), good characters. A lot of interesting fantasy and sci-fi gets published all over the world in many different languages, […]
Here's a post for book recommendations (making, asking, whatever). It's permanently linked from the lefthand sidebar of the site as "Review/Recommend" (under the "Explore the Site" navigation section), so you can find it again easily even after it ceases to be a recent post. A few of my own to start things off:
Our featured Fiction book this week is Gordon Korman's The Juvie Three, and selector Little n. shares her thoughts with us. The Juvie three is a great read about second chances, calamity and best-case scenarios. If you like Gordon Korman, then you’ll like this book – it’s a classic Korman story. Let me first introduce […]
Animation Unleashed by Ellen Besen and Bryce Hallett Bryce Hallett is an independent Canadian animator who lives and works in Toronto. He is a graduate of Sheridan College classical animation program and Canadore college's Graphic Communication Program. Bryce has been creating many cartoons with his company Frog Feet Productions since 1999. He is the illustrator for the […]
Wake author Lisa McMann gave a shout-out yesterday through Facebook to the BATTLE OF THE BOOKS launch event, where Wake was the audience favourite. Wake will be our featured fiction book next week. Lisa is in Arizona, which is quite far from Toronto, but the Internet makes everything local. Thanks Lisa! 🙂
Helena returns to share her thoughts on this week's featured graphic novel, Runaways: Dead End Kids by Joss Whedon: Runaways: Dead End Kids is about the children of the Pride (the villains of the Marvel comic universe) and how they rebel against their moms and dads by fighting for good and justice in the world.
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Check your email–we've drawn the prize winners for the July 20 – July 26 period and sent emails to the winners. Full details on prizes here. Congratulations to the winners! If you didn't win a prize–there's five more weeks of prize drawings to go!
The fantastic book that was my portion of the blog is the animation/illustration guide entitled: Animation Unleashed. This book is the product of two people, the author Ellen Besen and the illustrator Bryce Hallet. Today's blog will focus on my interview with Ellen and later in the week I will blog about my interview with […]
Last week I read Canadian author William Bell's The Blue Helmet, a short novel (166 pages) with deep themes (madness, youth violence, dealing with the death of a paren’t). Loved it! A fast read that will get you thinking.