Just finished John Connolly's "Book of Lost Things." It's not the most original novel ever written - a stepchild in World War II escapes from real life into story - and not nearly as breathtaking as "Pan's Labyrinth," although it's probably unfair to compare a book to a movie. But it does have imagination, and enough "and then what" to keep me going.
It's worth reading, and I plan to look into more of his writing; he's apparently been around & winning prizes for some time - I just haven't tripped over him yet.
