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July 17, 2005
Potter Potter Potter...
The events around the release of The Half-Blood Prince have left barely a dent around the house.
Cassidy still hasn't finished Order of the Phoenix after all these years. I think the overwhelming bulk of the thing just depresses her, and she's got a bunch of summer reading assignments to finish before middle school.
Liam kind of skimmed the first book, but he tends to think of Harry Potter as a movie series. The first movie came out when he was around 4. He likes to read, but he'd rather read Spiderman and Lemony Snicket.
Gina just finished Liquor, but she's rarely in a huge hurry to jump on the latest book. Busy, busy, busy, y'know.
And me? I'm still working on Last Call, and I refuse to start another book until I'm done with it. But lately I've been frittering away my valuable reading time playing around with my new PowerBook. And to be honest, I kind of skimmed a lot towards the end of Order of the Phoenix. That big battle scene just seemed like it was written with the camera shots already in mind...it was dull dull dreary and dull. I liked the book, but it could have been even better about 20% shorter. So I am actually torn between starting Potter next, or getting back into the next few volumes of Sandman. But the longer I wait, the more likely I am to run into spoilers in the blogosphere...what, Voldemort is Harry's father? Deja vu!
Bookwise here, it's been the opposite of the Perfect Storm. Just the Perfect Meh.
Posted by ray at July 17, 2005 12:29 PM | Permalink
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