Harry Potter Policy
Attention friends and readers: I am not buying Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tonight. I am waiting to start reading it until Tuesday, when Rachel gets home. When she does get home, we are going to read it together, slowly. If you spoil it for me, I will cut you with a linoleum knife.
Once we start reading it, I might (because I am a crazy fan) post chapter-by-chapter reviews here. Please, don’t spoil later chapters in comments to a post about an earlier chapter. Seriously. Don’t be that guy.
I’m going to have to walk around for the next four days with my eyes and ears covered, aren’t I?
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Because it is Monday and raining and I should be continuing with my work, I am distracting myself by wondering about your plan to read the book together. Are you sharing one copy of the book, so you can each take a turn reading? Or are you going to be sitting physically side by side, reading that way? Or do you have two copies so you can read together but separately?
P.S. While I was reading your description of the tomato and mozzarella salad, I just happened to be eating the lunch I just made: broiled tomato and mozzarella on deli sourdough. Yum, indeed.
Matt, you’re killing me! I really want to know what you think. I look forward to Tuesday and Wednesday (Thursday I leave for FRFF, so final thoughts will wait for next week, I guess!)
We read the books aloud, alternating chapters. That way we can savor them for longer.
We couldn’t read them silently together, because I read so much faster than Rachel that I’d spend most of the time sighing loudly in a very irritating passive-aggressive manner.
My wife reads way faster than I do and does that over-the-shoulder reading, staring at me and asking if I’m done yet, which only slows me down. Even though she read the book the Saturday before letting me have it, she still wanted to reread it while I was working on my first go-round.
Also, I know that you mentioned audiobooks a while back, so I thought that I should that these books are an extremely entertaining series, performed (not read) by Jim Dale. It is interesting to note the subtleties that can be gleaned from a book by listening to such a dramatic performance of it.
Oh yes, we’re huge fans of Jim Dale’s readings. I’m listening to the HP6 audiobook now, to tide me over.
That’s really cool that you’re reading it aloud together. I just finished it today, and I look forward to hearing what you think. I’d love chapter-by-chapter reviews!
To potential spoilers: Once Matt finishes butchering you with his linoleum knife (???), I will cook you up in a meal. And I am a terrible cook.