bookshelves of doom blog review

I chose to review this blog of the Canadian Library Association's list of the best young adult novels of 2007 because I thought it would be interesting to keep track of what Canadian teens are reading - and the name is cool. The blog includes a forum for teens to discuss the books.

The list includes:

Alison Acheson - Mud Girl (Coteau)
William Bell - The Blue Helmet (Doubleday)
Hadley Dyer - Johnny Kellock Died Today (HarperCollins)
Beth Goobie - Hello, Groin (Orca)
Maureen Hull - The View from a Kite (Vagrant Press)
Carrie Mac - Droughtlanders (Penguin)
Richard Scarsbrook - Featherless Bipeds (Thistledown)
Arthur Slade - Megiddo’s Shadow (HarperCollins)
Kathy Stinson - 101 Ways to Dance (Second Story Press)
Teresa Toten - Me and the Blondes (Penguin)

Here is a plot description of Featherless Bipeds and information about the author Richard Scarsbrook:

"Dak Sifter is playing drums in a great rock and roll band, impressing the girls, and generally having a blast. But then again, this is Dak Sifter; readers who know him understand that his life doesn’t run that smoothly. The second novel in the Dak Sifter Series, Featherless Bipeds finds Dak firmly centred in the minefield of youth with the temptations, seductions, and subterfuge that rock and roll, young love, and university life are sure to provide. While Featherless Bipeds is a novel about rock and roll musicians, love, poignant social politics, and the emerging value systems in youth culture, it’s also about Dak Sifter. Dak’s adventures still don’t make him the person he wants to be, and being a rock star will not change his relentless pursuit of Zoe Perry’s love.

Richard Scarsbrook is a Toronto writer, teacher, and drummer. His fiction and poetry have been published in literary magazines, anthologies, and journals. He has won the 2002 Lawrence House Centre for the Arts Short Story Competition, the 2001 New Orphic Short Story Competition, the 2001 Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Competition, the 1998 Hinterland Award for Prose, and the 1997 Cranberry Tree Press Poetry Chapbook Competition."

I am not familiar with any of the books or the authors. It would be interesting to know if anyone else knows about these books.

The link is:

http://bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com/bookshelves_of_doom/2007/03/canadian_librar.html