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This week, I began reading Kavalier and Clay. So far, I am enjoying this book to the fullest. I read up to page 68. Within these pages, Josef Kavalier and Sammy Clay meet for the first time in Brooklyn, NY. After that scene, it flashes back and focuses on Joesef' escape out of Nazi-Occupied Prague. He was all set to leave by train, but certain complications stopped him from doing so. He then turned to his former escape-artist teacher, a man named Kornblum, to help assist him in his efforts to leave the country. While reading, I noticed that the author, Michael Chabon, has an extensive vocabulary, and likes to insert sudden bursts of humor within conversations between characters. Also, when Chabon introduces a new character, he likes to use multiple paragraphs to describe every aspect of their character. To me, this is something that is good and bad at the same time. And as of right now, I havent noticed any particular themes in the book to develop a thesis on.