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A couple of books to remark on today - and those of you who are irritated by the Pottermania going around will be glad to know that one of them's not a Potter book and that my remark on the last chapter in that saga is going to be kept pretty brief.

So, my impressions on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: A worthy end to the series. Book number five remains my favourite, but I really enjoyed this one.

See? Brief.

For those of you looking for a good non-Potter book, I'd like to recommend Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers. The story revolves around a spinster named Klara, living in a remote Ontario town in the 1930's. However, the narrative also spends time in the 1860's with Father Gstir, the German priest who helped to found the town, and with Tilman, Klara's brother, who has left his family to become a drifter, thanks to an overwhelming wanderlust. The whole thing centers around the erection of the Vimy Ridge monument (if you're not Canadian, you might not have heard of the battle - but it's part of the Canadian identity, supposedly the battle where Canada stopped being a former colony of Britain and emerged as a country in its own right). Anyhow, the story is one of those typical Canadian novels - slow moving, full of emotion and hardship, but packing an incredible sense of whimsy and wonder.


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