I just don't have the patience for books that I used to! 
 The premise: a series of letters written on a small island where the government has started to outlaw the use of various letters of the alphabet. 
 I was highly impressed by the ability of the author to write without using the letters z, q, j, d, etc. etc. for much of the book. It is an extremely intriguing concept, and a major endeavor for any writer who relishes words. Though it was fun to try to catch mistakes, it lost its appeal after a while. It did make me wonder if our vast vocabularies were truly necessary when the same meaning could be construed with a much smaller vocabulary. 
 Favorite made-up word: illicitabetical