I've been on a kick of excellent books the last few weeks:

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro - I loved it! Very ordinary and pedestrian on the surface, and creepy-suspenseful underneath. Man can that guy write a story!

Saturday - Ian McEwan - amazing pacing, very suspensful, interesting moral issues.

Cry the Beloved Country - Alan Paton - I reread this book about every 5 years, to stay "tenderized" to the issues of race, fear, and forgiveness in South Africa - what a wonderful book.

Almost done with Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels - very poetic, moving but unsentimental poetic book about the holocaust and its survivors.

Kite Runner, Life of Pi and Wicked I liked as well, but especially Life of Pi - so inventive.

So many books, so little time!