I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the penultimate offering of JK Rowling in the Harry Potter series. I started reading it on Wednesday morning, so it’s taken me just over 3 days to read 605 pages.

It was quite a different style of book from the previous 5 books, and I think it could be my favourite one so far. There was a lot less action in it, but to compensate for that, it was a far more complex and intelligent piece of work. I won’t give away any plot developments, as I know some of you are or will be reading it, and I don’t want to spoil it for you. What I particularly liked, I think, was how Harry, Ron and Hermione are depicted as real teenagers – this raised a lot of laughs at my end.

I won’t say any more. If you haven’t read it yet, go get it and read it!

The next book on my reading list now is a re-reading of Stephen King’s Wizard & Glass, the fourth book in The Dark Tower series. The reason I’m re-reading it is because I have the last 3 books in the series: Song of Susannah, Wolves of the Calla and The Dark Tower, and because I read the first 4 books ages ago, I’m re-reading to remind myself what happened before reading the new ones.