Lee Raven, Boy Thief. Zizou Corder

I found this book in a English book store in Vienna while I was visiting with my friend Sylvia. I picked it up because of the summary. Seriously? A book that has every single book known to God or man? I can understand the want for it, the need to kill for it, and so on. The book was fantastic, written by a mother/daughter team. It is filled with random bits of British slang and I was grateful for context clues because... I'm American and our slang does not compute sometimes. The story itself is written almost journal style but written from several different people's perspectives. Normally this is something I find very annoying but this book manages to make it interesting and the changes actually move the story along in a way that's interesting and exciting. While our protagonist, Lee Raven, can't read, books are still important to him. They become even more so when he discovers what he's got in his hot little hands. The book is absolutely worth reading and I'm so glad I randomly picked it up. I also have to say I find the combination of a mother and daughter reading together just wonderfully happy making.