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[Richelle Votaw]

>> Also, I want to savor and enjoy OoP, not race through it. <<

Mary wrote:

> That is a VERY good idea. I learned my lesson with GoF. I raced through it, 
> worrying about who was going to die, and didn't get to enjoy it until my third 
> reading. 

I'm in a bit of a different position than most, as this is the first HP book I'm sitting around waiting for.  I had all four books sitting there before I started reading them, and I still inhaled GoF so fast my eyes were blurring.  And I plan on reading OotP the first time that way too.  I'm teaching summer school, so I'll have to be at work Monday morning, it's got to be read by then.  Plus I teach Sunday School Sunday morning, so I'd prefer to be finished by then.  The 26th will be my last day of Summer school, so I'll read it properly after that.  

I'm even dreaming about reading it quite frequently.  Last week I dreamed some bookstore was storing 83 copies of OotP in my classroom. (I counted them in my dream, weird.)  So I snuck a peek at one and was about to turn to the second page when I woke up.

Last night I dreamed it was June 21st, I was back home with my book from the midnight opening and got up to Chapter 9 before I woke up.  I remembered quite a bit of what I "read" immediately after I woke up, but it disappeared pretty quick.  I do remember a good bit about doors (from the cover, I suppose).  And at the beginning of Chapter 5 was a comment from JKR to the readers that this was the last book to have Quidditch as it was too fast paced to write anymore.  Huh?  I guess from the PoA movie Quidditch concerns.

Richelle


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