Please humour me...

[plinsenmayer at yahoo.com]

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From: plinsenmayer
Subject: Re: Please humour me...
Reply To: [Yahoo! #1823] Re: Please humour me...
Date: 6/10/00 9:51 am  (ET)

Hi:

We have done this before, but I think it's fun and we've got lots of
new members (so, hint hint, I think our longstanding members should join
in too).

Female, not a parent yet, a budding writer of sorts (not fiction), not
a teacher & not introduced by someone else really. My sister (3rd grade
teacher) did ask for them for Christmas, and when I visited bn.com and
saw I could buy all 3 hardbacks for under $30, I thought I would buy
myself a set as well "to see what all the fuss was about."

In my case, the "fuss" was not necessarily that I'd heard friends talking
about the books, but rather that I couldn't help noticing the number of
weeks these books had spent on the NY Times Bestseller List (being the
voracious reader that I am). So . . . I picked up SS in mid-January. Read
all 3 books within a week.

After devouring SS & CoS, I told myself I would savor PoA since it
would be months before the release of Book 4. My resolution to "savor"
this book lasted about, oh, 1.5 days. I told myself I'd just read a
chapter with my lunch one Saturday and found myself out on the back
deck 5 hours later, still reading nonstop. I suspect that will be the
case with Book 4. Despite all good intentions to "savor" it -- it will
be read in short order.

Other authors that draw me in like JKR -- well, I bet noone on this board
will have this one except one other friend (hi Nancy if you're still
reading) -- Laura Ingalls Wilder. You Brits may have heard of Noel Barber
-- noone in the US has. But honestly, the HP books are still quite special
in their own way, and the appeal they have can't really be matched for
me, even with my other long-time favorite authors. Hard to explain really.

Sorry for the rambling . . .

Penny