CORALINE by Neil Gaiman is a story for children but it is a rather dark one. I loved it.

Coraline is a little girl who lives with her parents in a huge old house together with other people who share the same house. Those other people are two old former actresses named Miss Spink and Miss Forcible who own three dogs, and an old man Coraline calls ‘the crazy old man’.

She loves to explore her surroundings.

FAHRENHEIT 451 is a classic written by Ray Bradbury. The novel is originally a short story entitled “The Fireman” published in the Galaxy Science Fiction in 1951 and two years later expanded into Fahrenheit 451. It’s a story about books and it’s not a happy one, because you see, it’s a crime to possess books and if anyone is found to keep them in their houses or read them, they will be reported and everything will be burned to ashes—the books, the house, and sometimes even the owners. Why? Because books give readers ideas of unhappiness, pain, suffering—they are evil.

Normally firemen put out fire but in Bradbury’s story, they don’t. Instead, the firemen start them in order to burn books. As indicated by the title Fahrenheit 451, the numbers 451 is the identification of a particular fireman in the story […]

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME is Mark Haddon’s debut novel and it’s beautifully written in the first-person narration. The story is about a fifteen-year-old autistic boy named Christopher John Francis Boone who is mathematically gifted but socially hopeless. He is superbly logical and sees everything literally based on patterns, rules and diagrams. You’ll be able to observe this by the way the book is being written.

One night, Christopher sees his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, lying on the grass. He takes a look and finds the poor pooch killed by a garden fork. […]

This is the first time I’m reading the work of Charles de Lint and am happy to say I’m not disappointed. DINGO holds my attention from the beginning to the end, and it speaks to me throughout like a friend.

Seventeen-year-old Miguel Schreiber meets an unusual new-girl-in-town named Lainey and her large dog named Em. Lainey is pretty with red-gold hair and so is the fur of her dog. […]