What are you planning to read after HP

[justcarol67]

Goddlefrood wrote:
<snip>
> Once I have read DH, which dependent on length should take until
> the 22nd July or so, I will read other books on my shelf, as I do
> now. <snip>

Carol responds:
Excellent advice--the best I've heard so far. I have literally
hundreds of unread books at home, which I no doubt ought to have read
instead of persistently rereading the HP books. Most of them relate to
old interests, especially history and paleoanthropology, and old
addictions (LOTR, Richard III). 

I can't imagine another fictional world compensating for the loss of
the WW or another fictional character compensating for the loss of
Snape (not that I expect the one to be destroyed or the other to die,
just that JKR will write nothing *new* on them--unlee she publishes
her notebooks as a boon to Rowling scholars).

If JKR writes anything new, I'll sample it--test the waters, see if
it's worth reading. Certainly, I'll read "Hogwarts: A History" if she
publishes it. But it won't be adequate compensation for the end of the
series, and the idea of reading some other author's fantasy works or
young adult fiction doesn't appeal to me. Maybe I'll head back to the
nineteenth century and try to make it through "Vanity Fair" or some
other books that I found disappointing on a first go-round. There's
always a reread of Dickens and Austen and the Bronte sisters and even
George Eliot or the English Romantic poets.

Or, heaven forfend, I'll resort to reading and writing fanfic.

Carol, hoping that HPfGu stays around for awhile, if only as a support
group for addicts who can't let go