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He is discovered by a farmer named Erik, who cares for him, but dislikes having a soldier around—war just leaves a bad taste in Erik's mouth. I’m not going to tell you what Midwinterblood is about because I think it’s a book you should go into blind. A young journalist named Eric arrives on a remote island, where it is rumored that the people live forever. He wonders about them all, all the many lives that have been, and that will be, and wonders why they are not all the same, why they are what they are.Tor claimed that Melle and Eirik were his children because their father was infertile (too much dragon orchid beer will do that).

Eric saving Merle's father wasn't them being together or loving each other, so that was another story which made Eric/Merle's centuries 'love' more ridiculous than tragic. The most recent of these nominations rekindled a fascination with Poe that has borne fruit here in (in The Restless Dead, 2007) the form of "The Heart of Another" - inspired by Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart. Here are some of our favourite children's books about time travel both classic and recently published.

The story is so much stranger and so different from other things I’ve read that it’s difficult to compare. This novel comprises seven short stories and travels in time, from 2073 back to the days of Viking sagas. I just knew that I had to find out what happened at the end, through this journey across time, going backward with each short story linked therein.

My first reaction was to think of CLOUD ATLAS, but the more I read this story, the more I found myself racing through the pages, I began to realize it was something else entirely. Midwinterblood is like a set of matryoshka dolls; each story has another story locked within it, as some detail or memory of an earlier life. They were just two dramatic fools who made silly promises to each other and their reincarnations proved there was nothing much between them, and that they could more than live fulfilled/happy lives without one another. They loved it because it was new and different and fresh, because it compelled you to continue reading because you just had to know what was going on, and because it was beautifully written.I have no idea why it won the Printz, which is about par for the course for me over the past few years.