Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was a good one. I didn’t like the last one so much but I raced through this one, trying to limit myself to a hundred pages a day but failing in a final scramble to the end. The ending was disappointing. I guess it’s getting hard for Rowling to find a satisfying place to stop, but this one ended on a particularly strong down note. Well, I’m sure she can count on a big audience for the last one. When it comes out I’m going to go back and read all of them one after another to see how well they hang together as a continuous story. I read them so far apart that I sort of lose track of the story from one to the next.