Kreacher's Tale
I'm glad it's raining out because I'm doing what I'd be doing anyway: reading and then napping and then reading and then getting a snack to eat while reading some more, and since it's gray out I don't have to feel guilty.I read the first Harry Potter book back when it was new and everyone was talking about it, and I thought... yeah, ok. That's an ok children's book. But then Beth got the audio version out of the library, and the British actor who reads it does so many voices that it seems a cast of dozens is reading the book, it seems like all the characters are alive and real and exciting. After that I was hooked. I read them in Brooklyn, and in my little cabin in the rainforest in Costa Rica. When the fifth book came out Beth and I were at her parent's house and we passed two copies between ourselves and her two brothers, and sometimes Harold would read out loud by the woodstove, all night until the last page. When the sixth book came out I read the first chapter in a bookstore in Belgrade.
I'm about to start chapter ten. Nowhere near half way yet. I'm avoiding the internet and I haven't even read the comments on my last blog entry, because I don't want to accidentally come across any spoilers. I love suspense and I love surprises and this one has been building for seven years or so. You don't get much more build up than that.
posted by tortaluga @ 2:20 PM
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