Re-Reading

[plinsenmayer at yahoo.com]

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From: plinsenmayer
Subject: Re: Re-Reading
Reply To: [Yahoo! #689] Re: Re-Reading
Date: 3/24/00 8:31 am  (ET)

Melanie wrote:
<My favorite, for comic value, is when Snape
 tries to get the Marauder's Map to reveal itself, and it insults him
 instead.>

LOL! I love that one too!

Melanie -- as for getting friends to read the HP books -- I've had mixed
luck. Re: my husband -- it's really "insistence" on my part (and I now
think he's actually enjoying the books but feigning disinterest because
he knows it annoys me no end!). I have some friends who have heard from
others also that the HP books are good and they are now professing an
interest in reading them. Then, I have others who just dismiss them as
"children's books." Unfortunately, *I* have a difficult time changing
their minds as most all my friends know I'm writing a biography of
children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder. So, they just think "oh, yeah,
the person who's crazy about the Little House books is now recommending
*another* set of children's books." :--) Incidentally, I do readily
acknowledge that the Little House books *are* largely children's books
(though they hold appeal still for people who read them as children or
are reading them to their own children). But, the HP books are definitely
not just for kids in my mind.

I think it will be interesting to see how much readership (adult
readership in particular) jumps up when Book 4 is released, as it
appears that HP will take up 4 slots on the NY Times Bestseller List
at that point (unless Sorcerer's Stone slips off the list before then,
but it seems to be holding steady for the moment).

Penny