Monday, July 18, 2005
Busy, bookish weekend
My timing, though accidental, was excellent.
On Friday, Caro and the local public library finished up their joint summer reading program with a Harry Potter Party. Games, prizes, costumes, the works. It was well attended by excited children and an assortment of exhausted adults. I had to leave early, though, because some friends of ours were having a yard book sale and I had to go be helpful there.
I was helpful until I had helped myself into a good approximation of the Jellylegs Jinx. Went home and rested until it was time to go to the Midnight Selling of the Book at Wal-mart. Caro says two years ago there was a special table set out, and everyone in the waiting line chatted and had fun. So we came with our young ones, and a CD of Harry and the Potters, and glow stick wands, ready for some wizard rocking. But this year, the Wal-mart employees would barely admit that some sort of sale of some book or other MIGHT be happening after midnight.
So the small crowd just stood around in little quiet groups, a few fiddling with their wands, which didn't really glow that much under the fluorescent lighting. Right around midnight someone came out towing a pallet of HP books. The crowd of about 25-30 people walked over, picked one out, and went to stand in the check out lines. It was all sadly muggle-ly mundane.
I stayed up reading until time to take some aspirin. Went to sleep, got up, said Ow, took some more, went back to bed with the book. That accounted for most of Saturday. So it was lucky that, on a day when I really needed to lay down and let my legs recover from too much exertion, I had something special to keep me entertained as I did it.
Non-spoiler observation: I liked it. JKR improved in the areas that bothered me so much with the last one, so I was satisfied.
Yesterday it was at least 105 here, maybe more. When it finally dropped below 100 I went back to my friends' sale and took away another carload of books. So I am somewhat tired again today. But I have many new books to sort through, so that's a good thing!
On Friday, Caro and the local public library finished up their joint summer reading program with a Harry Potter Party. Games, prizes, costumes, the works. It was well attended by excited children and an assortment of exhausted adults. I had to leave early, though, because some friends of ours were having a yard book sale and I had to go be helpful there.
I was helpful until I had helped myself into a good approximation of the Jellylegs Jinx. Went home and rested until it was time to go to the Midnight Selling of the Book at Wal-mart. Caro says two years ago there was a special table set out, and everyone in the waiting line chatted and had fun. So we came with our young ones, and a CD of Harry and the Potters, and glow stick wands, ready for some wizard rocking. But this year, the Wal-mart employees would barely admit that some sort of sale of some book or other MIGHT be happening after midnight.
So the small crowd just stood around in little quiet groups, a few fiddling with their wands, which didn't really glow that much under the fluorescent lighting. Right around midnight someone came out towing a pallet of HP books. The crowd of about 25-30 people walked over, picked one out, and went to stand in the check out lines. It was all sadly muggle-ly mundane.
I stayed up reading until time to take some aspirin. Went to sleep, got up, said Ow, took some more, went back to bed with the book. That accounted for most of Saturday. So it was lucky that, on a day when I really needed to lay down and let my legs recover from too much exertion, I had something special to keep me entertained as I did it.
Non-spoiler observation: I liked it. JKR improved in the areas that bothered me so much with the last one, so I was satisfied.
Yesterday it was at least 105 here, maybe more. When it finally dropped below 100 I went back to my friends' sale and took away another carload of books. So I am somewhat tired again today. But I have many new books to sort through, so that's a good thing!
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