Yesterday I blasted through Louis Sachar's Holes which is about 233 pages and ended up on my list because it's a common middle school assigned text. This wasn't the first time I'd picked it up, but somehow I never got through it before. This time it was a breeze.
I picked it up this time because it was easy to get an e-copy on my library through the Dekalb Library.
On its surface it's about a penal camp for bad boys where they dig five foot holes in a desert. However, this is really a multi-layered story with a lot going on. The main story of Stanley the wrongly accused delinquent is interwoven with the story of his great-great grandfather who was cursed by a gypsy. The fascinating thing here for me as a writer is that there are no wasted words. Everything interconnects. I ended up really liking both Stanley and Zero.
All in all, this was a good place to start for me, but obviously not all the books are going to be easy quick reads like this.
The Portable Door by Tom Holt
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