I'm not really against them - I just never had any desire to crack the spine of a Potter tale.
But even I can get a little excited about the imminent publication of the latest (and last?) in the series. After all, here was my (rather splendid) entrepreneurial idea the last time a book was published:
I often see people reading Harry Potter books in the Underground. With the most recent one I had a great idea. I knew that a character died, so I hunted around for the spoiler on the Internet. I know who it is. I thought I could wander around the Underground looking for those in the early pages of Harry Potter and the Half-Brain Prince and threaten to tell them who dies unless they give me £10, or maybe £5 if they negotiate.
And this time with all the leaking, I could make a cracking start.
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I LOVE IT!!! Can I have a piece of this action? I wouldn't take Cletus with you on this mission, however. Harry Potter can provoke violent rage in some people. My friend said if I find out the ending and tell her, she will kill me. Gulp.
hmmm.... if it's that emotive maybe I should extort more
LOL- I just blogged that the people that do this sort of thing are evil. . . I really don't think the two of you would do anything of the sort.
To be safe I may stay away from your sites until I finish reading.
I haven't read any either, though my daughters are both fans. I actually started reading the first one to Daughter Number Two when she was in 4th grade, but after the first chapter she took it off and finished it.
I hope you've started reading aloud to Cletus, btw. My babies both loved to listen to nursery rhymes, and I continued reading to them long after they started reading.
Not so much reading to Cletus as singing along to country music CDs. Does that count?
After seeing your comment though, I did read out much of this week's Economist's letters page while he was nursing.
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