I closed the Harry Potter book around 10pm last night. I really enjoyed it. Now it is time to listen to it...
Of course I am listening to something else at this time, so I will have to finish Labyrinth before starting another audible book. If you haven't tried listening to books, try it. I have converted several people to the pleasure of listening to books. Our library has lots of books to check out, both on cassette and on cd. Another way is to download them and burn them or put them on your smart card and use a mp3 or pda to listen. Visit Audible and check it out! I listen in the car, when I am cleaning, and when i am knitting! It is just about the only way I multi-task!
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I was one of the over-enthusiastic who stood in line Friday night to get my book at 1201. I came back to our hotel and read until 0300, which I think was a greater disservice to myself than a help. I spent Saturday being very tired and require a few catnaps throughout the day. I felt drained and like dementors were circling my bed and sucking the very joy out of me. I think I would have been better off to come home and go to bed, get up at a normal time and then start reading from there. I finished Sunday afternoon after I had shed my share of tears. I was relieved to have finished the book and not been subjected to talk on the internet or news discussing the outcome of the book, but I was also really sad that it had ended and that there would be no more standing in line at midnight to get another book.
I know that Steven is glad I am done with it since I stuck my life on hold while I finished it. He thought I was being ridiculous, though, that I was reading it as if I were cramming for a test and not reading to enjoy. I would say that the last 1/3 of the book I was truly riveted because of interest and not just the need to get it done before I inadvertantly learned anything about it. I think the last 100 pages of the book was the longest.
oh. Steven and I also like audio books. We are in the process of listening to one of our favorite books called Lamb by Christopher Moore. He's an excellent author. We read one of his other books to each other. It took us a year to read it since neither of us would read it unless one of us could read it to the other. Angela was itching to get her hands on it and when she finally did she read it in like a day. Now that I've finished Potter, I have resumed reading another one of Moore's books so that we can do the "read to each other" thing again with the sequel to the book I'm currently reading.
i finished it! it was wonderful. i'm so sad that it's the end, though.
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