We've been reading the further adventures of Sally Lockhart to each other and liked this gem from Philip Pullman:

"Already the words were becoming transparent: he could see through them into the text, like a lot of little windows into a house. And day by day more light got in, so the the big words were beginning to look familiar too, and he felt more able to guess what they might be, and got more of his guesses right. It wouldn't be long now before he'd be able to go straight to The Communist Manifesto."