This week‘s small but mighty library haul features another from this year‘s Canada Reads Longlist, two more volumes of Yona, and Thomas King‘s latest (I think?) Thumps Dreadfulwater mystery.
This week‘s small but mighty library haul features another from this year‘s Canada Reads Longlist, two more volumes of Yona, and Thomas King‘s latest (I think?) Thumps Dreadfulwater mystery.
A small group of Cree teens sit around a campfire after dark and tell scary stories that draw on traditional folklore as well real life horrors like Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, addictions and mental health demons. Cree cartoonist Christopher Twin grew up on the Swan River First Nation and now lives in Edmonton Alberta. His spiky art and use of dark colours add to the creepy atmosphere in this entertaining graphic novel. #Canadian
I‘m very familiar with people using “clicks” to mean kilometres, talking about either distance or speed, but encountering it in this book by an Alberta author made me stop to consider: is this a Canadianism? Littens, what do you say?