yay books

I am a serial reader. I am always reading something, and very often, I have two books (or more) going on at the same time. I am currently reading Watership Down (in the bedroom) and Blood Red Horse (in the bathroom, yes, I am a bathroom reader...)

But since I hadn't been paid in a long time, I really hadn't bought new books in a while. I like to have at least three new books waiting for me, so that as soon as I finish, I can start reading another one or two, with one still in reserve. While I still have some existing books that I haven't read yet (see books currently reading,) they weren't new books, so I hadn't been excited to read them. And they aren't books that I've read before and love to reread, so I had been without books I couldn't wait to read for a while.

No longer! We went to Barnes & Noble on the day I got paid, and I happily dropped about $50 in new books, and that was restraining myself. So now I have waiting for me: Labyrinth, Hood, The Riddle, Pippi Longstocking, and Eat, Pray, Love. Now technically, Pippi Longstocking was bought a while ago, but since it was the last of my new books, I couldn't start it until I had more new books, because it would only take me a few hours to read it at most, and then I wouldn't have any new books at all, see my dilemma?

I feel complete now, like I had lost friends somewhere along the way, and I only just got them back. And yes, I know, this might be extreme to feel about books, but I really consider them friends.

Happy reading!

A weekend with Harry Potter

*No spoilers, I promise*

We went to our first (and last, sniff) Harry Potter release party Friday night, and had fun checking out all the costumes, and getting spells and such. T got a spell to make people's pants split at the seams, I got one to encourage positive energy....

We saw Dobby, Lucius and Draco Malfoy, Luna, Tonks, a Quidditch team, and obviously lots of Harrys and such. It was amazing to see the whole bookstore filled with people, and know that they were all there for the same book.

We didn't get home till around 1:30, I managed to stay up till 3:30 reading (quite a feat for me!). The next day was spent almost exclusively reading, minus a visit to meet a kitty, and playing with Myrapup. T finished Sat. night, I didn't finish till Sun. afternoon. For those of you who know me and know how I read books....I didn't read the end at all!!!! This is another big accomplishment, although with this book I really wasn't tempted. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't ask questions to T, and there were a lot of times where he would say he wouldn't tell me, but he did confirm that my theories I was completely certain of, were in fact true.

I cried. I laughed. I cried more. I was completely and utterly enthralled in that world. It reminded me of how much I loved her books in the first place (been sort of disenchanted the past two books). I was cheering, I was shouting "I KNEW it" at different points. It was a fabulous end to an amazing series, and of course the fact that it was the end of the series was really sad. I don't know when another series will come along that captures me so much, or that becomes a common thread that you can talk about with people of all types and ages.

Well done JK Rowling. And Thank you.