Tattoo by Jennifer Barnes

Bailey and her three best friends are hanging out at the mall on their usual Friday shopping trip. Strange things start to happen after they decide to wear the temporary tattoos Bailey bought from the strange lady at the accessories booth. The girls discover that the tattoos have given them supernatural powers that they will need to fight the ancient fairies who control fate. It's a crazy mix of supernatural oddities, Celtic mythology and high school mean girls. This is a fast paced fun read for fans of Charmed and Buffy.

The Golden Compass Movie

I love the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman and I am looking forward to the movie version. The website looks great! Check it out at www.goldencompassmovie.com. You can even find out what kind of daemon you would have if you lived in their world. If you haven't read the books yet, a daemon in their world is where your soul resides and your daemon changes as you get older and your personality and character become more set. I took the quiz and found out that my daemon is Boreallus, a male lion. What do you think? Does it suit me? As people look at the link below, the daemon might change. I'll wait to see the final result.



If you haven't read the books yet, you are in for a treat. Check out the website and then pick up the books.

Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen by Glen Huser

I always enjoy reading about foreign lands and landscapes but sometimes it's comfortable to read a book set close to home. Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen is set in Edmonton. It mentions Whyte Avenue and Glenora and then takes a road trip through Jasper and off to Vancouver. Tamara is a foster kid on her way to a new home when we meet her. She's in a car with her social worker being careful to say the right things and smile at the right times. I quickly decided that she wasn't all bad, just very self centred. She comes up with multitudes of reasons to skip school - mostly because she wants to watch some kind of fashion program on tv. When she is forced to attend a school visit to a retirement home she is paired up with Jean, The Wrinkle Queen, who has her own agenda. Jean's dream is to attend Wagner's Ring Cycle in Seattle one more time, a trip that her doctors tell her she is too weak to take. Tamara wants to go to modelling school in Vancouver. With these two strong minded women in cahoots, trouble is sure to follow. I thought this book was a riot and it's a quick read too.