I own basically every book by Neil Gaiman. I don’t own any comic books or any of the picture books for younger children, but since my last purchase including The Graveyard Book and Odd and the Frost Giants, I have and have read every novel and collection. Including today’s review, American Gods.

   American Gods is going to be read quite a lot next month, because starting May 5th, there will be one big book club on Twitter. A few days ago the voting for #1b1t, or One Book, One Twitter. Twitterers nominated and then voted on the book they wanted everyone on Twitter to be reading, and American Gods came out on top.
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   Once upon two months ago I reviewed the first three books in Helen Dunmore’s Ingo quartet. I recently was able to purchase the fourth and last book, The Crossing of Ingo, and have since finished it. Let’s dive in.

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   How’s that for a title? Does that fit the theme of “book with ‘thief’ in the title”? I think so.

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   So far in this little Thief miniseries we reviewed a kid who never really stole anything, and another who stole only books. This week we’ll be taking a look at a more traditional thief from a very traditional tale.

   Once upon a hundred and fifty-seven years ago, a man named Howard Pyle was born. I don’t expect you to recognise the name. He was an American illustrator, but he wrote a bit too. What he’s most famous for isn’t drawing or original writing though, but an adaptation.

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   Remember how last week we had a review about a Lightning Thief? Well, this week we’re continuing our look at my Thief sub-collection (in addition to being a title from my historical fiction sub-collection). In fact, we’ll be looking at thieves all through March, ending with another of my favourite series. So let’s start this second-of-four thief reviews.

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