Top 5 wild, weird Western crossovers

List by Danielle

"The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say."
~ The first line of 'The knife of never letting go', by Patrick Ness

Wikipedia goes into loving detail about some of the newfangled flavours of Western out there, from the Weird West or Science Fiction Western (which seems to have a more historical setting, albeit one that plays fabulously fast and loose with real history, see 'Cowboys vs Aliens' or Cherie Priest's award-winning steampunk westerns) to the Space Western, in my heart always associated with by Joss Whedon's wonderful (and forever shiny!) 'Firefly' and 'Serenity'. Okay, the boundaries of these sub-genres are as fluid and fiddly as most genre distinctions seem to be, but the lists of films, TV, graphic novels and books cited show that there's some exciting storytelling to be exploring, out on the frontiers.

Top 5 most requested titles for August 2011

List by Natalie and Tosca

Happy September, everyone! After the serious tone of my last post I'm going to opt for something a little less hard on my brain and keep it light (but not fluffy) and offer up the top 5 most requested books for the month of August. I'm seven shades of happy to see that teen/kids books are sitting comfortably in 4 of the 5 spots on today's list. 3 books also have film tie-ins. Ooh, and before I forget, our new books lists are up and ready for you to go crazy reading and requesting! Enjoy :)