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Here's something hyper-gay. I thought the Madeleine book, or was it books?, had a sort of eerie wistfulness.

Oh, and there was a really great book about three Chinese brothers that was incredibly inventive, I thought. I really dug it huge. One could swallow up the whole ocean, the other could create storms or something, and I forget what the other one could do. Anyway, they used these bizarre powers in a remarkable way in the story. I think this one has come back into print recently. I would love to read it again. It was very simple, but incredibly cool. Wish I could remember the title.