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Charles De Lint, representing, Cananda | A Dreaming Place.
John Marsden, representing, Australia | Incurable.

Xinran, representing, China | Sky Burial.
Alessandro Baricco, Representing Italy | Silk
Brian Selznick, representing, USA | The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Marjane Satrapi, representing, Iran | Persepolis
Yoshihiro Tatsumi, representing Japan [...]

The recent 24 Hour Read-a-Thon, provided the opportunity to read a bunch of shorter novels, and this was one of them. Translated in to English from the original Italian, it also completes the Orbis Terrarum challenge for me.
The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for [...]

This is another of those semi-autobiographical graphic novel memoirs.
Highly acclaimed, Swiss comic artist Fredrik Peters delivers a (mostly) intimate, poetic and accessible memoir. Following the story or Peeters’ relationship with his girlfriend Cati and her three-year-old son, what sets this appart, is that both Cati and her son are HIV positive.
The story, follows their relationship [...]

photo credit: hawkexpress
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 [...]

Can you ever escape your fate?

Three shadows stand outside the house — and Louis and Lise know why the spectral figures are there. The shadows have come for Louis and Lise’s son, and nothing anyone can do will stop them. Louis cannot let his son die without trying to prevent it, so the family embarks on a journey to the ends of the earth, fleeing death.

Poignant and suspenseful, Three Shadows is a haunting story of love and grief, told in moving text and sweeping black and white artwork by Cyril Pedrosa.

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.

In the interests of honesty I should admit, the only reason I picked up this book to read was the A to Z Challenge, because, well, they’re not that many authors out the whose names start with “X” are there!
It’s not to say I didn’t want to read the book, I’m not going to choose [...]

“Prepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing.”—Los Angeles Times
I don’t really know why I picked this one up, I was perusing the graphic novel section of my local store really just bought in on impulse. Specialist publishers Drawn and Quarterly have done a really nice job in presenting it.
I’d never [...]

Squeaky swings and tall grass
The longest shadows ever cast
The water’s warm and children swim
And we frolicked about in our summer skin
© Death Cab for Cutie
Welcome Sunday Saloners!
Well as regular visitors (who aren’t reading this in a RRS feed!) might have noticed I’ve changed my site’s skin to something a little brighter and more in keeping [...]

The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return
Picked up this mainly of the back of positive reviews on some book-blogs (some of which are linked to at the end of this review) I’ve been reading.
While I’m acquainted with the form, I haven’t read many graphic novels in recent years, not since my [...]