Do you believe in faeries? Not the soft, gentle kind, but the sinister, feral kind – the ones that wreak havoc on everything in their path…

Rule #3: Don’t stare at invisible faeries.
Rule #2: Don’t speak to invisible faeries.
Rule #1: Don’t ever attract their attention.
I listened to the audiobook version of this story, narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan, and I have to say I was very impressed with the production, Bresnahan doesn’t so much as narrate or read the story, as [...]

Well after behaving myself last week and not bringing any new books into the house, is was inevitable that the same was not going to happen this week! Still I don’t think four is too bad. Is it?

Marked, The Joshua Files: Ice Shock & Knife are all books [...]

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This week’s theme is: catch up on… something.
Weekly Geeks #6 was catch up on reviews week, but so many of you organized bloggers were caught up with reviews that you chose to catch up on other things. So I kept in mind that a catch-up week every now and then [...]

Blogger, “My Friend Amy” is hosting the Book Blogger Appreciation Week, starting today, through to the 19th.
Book Bloggers: You work hard. You read books, you write reviews, you maintain relationships with your readers, publicists, and authors. You are constantly running to the post office to mail your giveaways and participating in carnivals to help boost [...]

This week for Weekly Geeks, I interviewed Somer, from SomeReads about Tithe by Holly Black and she interviewed me about, The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick.

Bart: What made you read Tithe? Was it the book itself or had you read some Spiderwick stuff?
Somer: I don’t actually remember how Tithe originally made it [...]

As I’ve just joined yet another challenge, I thought it might be time to take stock and take a look at how I’m doing with them.

Well, for  my first Sunday Salon, post I though I might take a look at what I read during June. Why, well June (and the 24 Hour Read-a-Thon) has provided a second wind to my self imposed challenge this year to get back to reading like I did some years ago.

Not a bad haul, all [...]

A young woman locked in rage yet seeking magic, Ash is drawn into a wondrous Otherworld of totems and dryads, living tarots and mystic charms. At the same time, Ash’s cousin Nina is stalked by an Otherworld demon-a manitou who can force her mind and soul into the bodies of beasts. Ash must find the strength to overcome her own anger, learn the full power of magic, and save Nina before she becomes the manitou’s weapon, turning the faerie realm into an arctic wasteland. De Lint fans will relish this urban and otherworldly fantasy, partially set in the author’s trademark Newford.

In the tranquil fields and meadows of long-ago England, there is a small hamlet that has stood on a jut of granite for 600 years. Just to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here, in the hamlet of Wall, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. And here, one crisp October eve, Tristran makes his love a promise — an impetuous vow that will send him through the only breach in the wall, across the pasture…and into the most exhilarating adventure of his life.