I did it!
The following post contains no spoilers....
I can't believe it's over! It feels amazing to finally have all questions answered. Now that I'm finally done I need to go like.... live again.... I've been a freak all day, hardly eating just pacing and reading. Time to get back to the real world.... *sigh*
Friends who have also finished the book, I look forward to enjoying a fun chat with you about the ending!
Labels: books
posted by Tobes @ 2:47 PM
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I. Am. So. Jealous. :)
Please tell me that Harry died. Please. But I doubt it.
Well of course I can't say, Sarah. That would ruin it. And be careful, insulting Harry to a big Harry-nerd-fan such as myself could be dangerous ;)
Besides I'd much rather they do pointless news stories on Harry Potter than the train wreck that is Paris, Lindsay, Britney etc.
I love the series for so many reasons but if for nothing else-- it has inspired a whole bunch of young kids to really read!
I figure when I have kids (IF I have kida) someday (kids sometimes frighten me) I will read them the Harry Potter series as well as the Laura Ingalls Wilder series--- my mom read that one too me when I grew up and I loved it.
I just love books :)
I know, I know. But I can pinpoint exactly what made me want nothing to do with the series, ever - I worked at B. Dalton when I was in high school and these obnoxious kids would come in practically every week asking if the new book was out yet, I don't remember which book they were on in the series, this would have been in 2000 or 2001. Every effing week I would tell these kids the same thing - plus they were on the calling list since they had actually pre-ordered the book and PAID FOR IT. We had to call them when it came in, we already had their money. It was one of the most annoying things ever. Plus, I just never really thought it was that interesting, I read the first five or six chapters of the first book and was bored so I never bothered with it, though I love to read and it's actually the only book I've ever started that I never finished.
But I do agree with you on the fact that the series does have its merit in that it did get numerous children and adults alike to start reading again, that's a good thing at least.
I LOVED the Little House on the Prairie books, I read them a zillion times when I was a kid, and once time Mom even took me to De Smet, South Dakota to see the Ingalls Homestead/Mueseum, etc. It was pretty neat-o, but I was also like, 10 at the time. I really loved those books.
Yeah, you'd never know it from the first book but the series gets a lot more interesting.
YAY for Laura Ingalls Wilder! I went to Desmet too. It was a good time. I bought a bonnet. Yeah-- told ya I was a nerd.
My mom read all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books to me, too... and every time Mitch and I are driving to or from Grand Forks I ask him if we can go to Desmet.
But, as a grown up, I'm remembering now that there were some racial undertones against Native Americans. I might have to re-read them before I decided if I'll read them to my kids or not....
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