Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I liked this book.

2. the Wild Girls

the Wild Girls by Pat Murphy

This is a lovely coming of age book - the sort of story that makes you smile and slightly sad, before wishing you could give this book to a much younger you.  The protaganist, a girl named Joan or sometimes Newt, moves across country to California in the seventies and finds her voice in the woods with Fox and by becoming a writer.  I'll pass this book on.  It's the kind of book that ought to be shared among friends.

1. Censoring an Iranian Love Story

1. Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour

This novel is entwines two stories - the narrator as an artist, writing around the censors of Iran and the fictional story of two young people trying to create a love story within the parameters of their society.  As the narrator self-censors in order to allow his novel to be published, he gives insight into layered Iranian symbols, pieces of everyday life and the meaning of art in a nation confined.