TBR Tuesday: A Monster Calls

Most of us have books we've bought with all intentions of reading (or maybe just because it was cheap!), only to have them fade away on a shelf or disappear into a stack of books, never to be seen or thought of again.
TBR Tuesday is a way to talk about the books we own but haven't read, see what other people think about them, and help us decide whether to bump it up our list or knock it off completely.
[If you're more a book borrower than a book buyer, you're still welcome to participate with the books that you've been meaning to read and haven't!]

On my TBR

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Fantasy, 215 pages
September 27th 2011 from Candlewick Press

At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting— he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd— whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself— Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.

I know I just got this, so it's not like it's been hanging out on my actual owned TBR pile for long.  But it has been on to-read wishlist for quite some time, and I really would have liked to be able to read it for Helluva Halloween, so I figured it'd be a good TBRT for the event.  I know at least one person who has read and loved this (Allison, I'm looking at you), but what about the rest of you?  Any of you read this, or wanting to read this?

What's lurking in your TBR pile?

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