[HPforGrownups] Re: Readers in the WW (was: JKR and "Think of the Children!")

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 162124

Lynda:

I still tend to think that the reason Harry isn't a reader of fiction (and
this is ok) is because he didn't grow up in a family of readers. And that's
fine. Not everyone is. Even many who are "readers" really aren't. I remember
watching in horror as a woman in a Target 2 months ago came in and snatched
every single new Harlequin off the shelf of the book aisle. Yep. She noticed
me watching. As she ran past me down the aisle she said, "this'll hold me
for a month!" I did remember to mentally wish her happy reading, but that's
so far from my normal reading that its a different world to me. I'm not
saying I've never read a Harlequin romance but...(off my soapbox now,
really!)

And I tend to agree as well that Harry doesn't read for pleasure is also
that he doesn't really have the time. He is after all, learning to save the
world. And there's a time to read and a time for action.

On that note. My next action is finding my Harry Dresden book so I can read
a very few minutes before bed. Yeah. I can do that tonight. I just started
it. Not nearly to the gory part yet...

Lynda


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