The Da Vinci Code

By Dan Brown, published by Doubleday, 2003

This is a novel "simutaneously lightningpaced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail. From the opening pages to the unpredeictable and stunning conclusion,"(quote from the book jacket), once you start, you won't be able to put it down. There are history, religion, and arts.The No.1 book on the New York

Fall

Leaves
Colorful, windy
Blowing, trembling, carving
Rainbows, cocoa, fire, homework
Falling, crunching, running
Hard, easy
Halloween

By Ren X. Li, October 2004

Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker

by James McManus, published by Farrar,Straus, Giroux, 2003.

A breath-taking book. The writer, started as a journalist following a murder case and the world series of poker event, ended anticipating in the world most money prized competition and came in 5th, wrote from inside out the making of the casino life in Las Vegas, the world gambling capital. Love, money, and lust.