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I fell in love with this book. Let’s just start there. First, I thought it was hilariously subversive and touched with a refreshing dark side (there’s a ouija board in the back of the book, for example, and a long section that explains how to use it. Then there’s a section on getting rid of Tulpas --- ethereal manifestations responsible for bad things happening to good people. There’s more, but that gives you an idea.) Read More
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BILLY FOG: THE GIFT OF TROUBLE SIGHT is the work of French artist and writer Guillaume Bianco, who culls some of his own life experiences (and interest in the occult) to inform his book. In doing so, he creates a mischievous (some would say downright twisted and mean) protagonist who is obsessed with death.
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BILLY FOG: THE GIFT OF TROUBLE SIGHT is the work of French artist and writer Guillaume Bianco, who culls some of his own life experiences (and interest in the occult) to inform his book. In doing so, he creates a mischievous (some would say downright twisted and mean) protagonist who is obsessed with death.
About the Book
Like some other kids his age, Billy Fog has to wear glasses. But Billy has the gift of Trouble Sight, so when he takes his glasses off, he sees all the things that other kids can’t --- ghosts and ghouls, vampires and monsters, a world of darkness and danger and above all the thing that kids aren’t supposed to see: death. Is Trouble Sight a gift, then, or a curse?
A new kind of graphic novel --- part storybook, part fable, part gazetteer and bestiary of the horrible and fantastic, inspired by the likes of Tim Burton and Lemony Snicket.
March 9, 2012
Though it signals the promise of spring, I am not looking forward to losing an hour this weekend to jumpstart Daylight Saving Time. And I wonder who wants to vote with me to lose an hour on a Monday, not a weekend! I think the timing would work out a lot better. Or a Wednesday. Just not the weekend. Cory, my younger son, leaves for the bus stop at the ungodly hour of 6:50, so here we go again with a 6:30 wake up in the dark (he’s a guy who can be out of the house in 20 minutes). This week he had a series of standardized tests at school, and tomorrow he has the SATs. I think by tomorrow afternoon he will be really sick of filling in little boxes with a number 2 pencil. The good news is that, now that he can drive, he can take himself to the school for the SAT, which starts at 7:30AM. Noon would be so much more practical for a start time for this!
Renowned journalist and former concert pianist, Leila Cobo is a native of Cali, Colombia, the Executive Director of Latin Content & Programming for
Some friends and I were just talking the other day about the upcoming movie adaptation of THE HUNGER GAMES. They had all read the books and like me, were eagerly looking forward to the movie. These were adult women reading what has been categorized as a “young adult” book. Obviously, it’s not always easy to know how to determine an age range for a book—though it might originally be written for teens or for adults, if something “catches” as they say—it’s popularity spreads across the age span. This is definitely what has happened with Suzanne Collins’s trilogy. Everyone seems to be reading it or wanting to read it.
Busy promoting her newly released book, THE SECOND TIME WE MET, author Leila Cobo recently answered our 20 Questions and shared with us just how much fun she is having meeting new people and sharing her book with readers!
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