Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
Lordie, Harry is an angry young man in this book. I was continually struck by the fury in our young wizard, and the illogic that clouds his brainmeats as a result. Hermione gets awesomer and awesomer - i look forward to seeing where she goes, as a character. A fun candy read, as expected. Perfect thing to finish up while tired in our tent on the first night of the >Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
I think the easiest way to tell you how much i liked this book is to point out that with only a few hundred pages left, i carted it to Seattle and around and about - and we stayed on foot the whole time. (My copy is in hardcover. Heavy. And yet, I just couldn't leave it behind for 4 days.) What an amazing piece of writing - a great story about two boys coming of age; about the birth of the comics industry; about New York during a period of great change. Chabon is a master storyteller with a sense for assiduous wordsmithing. If you haven't read this yet, it's definitely worth picking up. But maybe you want it in paperback, so when you cart it around, unable to let go of it, it doesn't hurt your back so much?
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