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Updated: July 26 (9AM)

There may be spoilers below the fold. Read no further if you haven't finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Do not read the comments, either.

Plan to get in line at the bookstore at midnight on the day of its release? We're just going to go the Amazon route. It will be in our mailbox same day. I also don't intend to try to read it in one sitting. I've never done that even once in my life. Speculation has J.K. Rowling writing other books after this release about the wizard world she's created but I think this one due out on July 21 will do it for me. I've read them all so far and want to know how it turns out but I don't have much interest beyond that. She's had a good run.

Got yours yet? What amazing cultural events these books are turning out to be. Amazon promised to deliver it to us on the day it was released but we got an email the other day saying they may not be able to do so. It has a lot of other people upset. We have a few other things going on so it is not that important to us that we may miss the starting gun. (Update 2:45PM: It was in today's mail. Normal life may resume) I'm only about a third of the way through The Historian. Just haven't had time for reading. I suppose I could give up some computer time........maybe not.


I don't know what made me pick one of them up. Patsy had said I should read them but she's always saying that about one book or another. She's a much more avid reader than I am. I didn't become aware of the phenomenon until the fourth book. My sister-in-law had all of them so I borrowed them not knowing whether I was going to be able to read them. Patsy had already read them all. The first one was cute and the second one was OK. It's the third one, Prisoner of Azkaban, that got me. The next two were tedious but I suppose I have to finish them now.

Experimenting with this image plug-in thingy. It's a little more complicated than I thought it would be. I see other bloggers doing this stuff all of the time. I thought it must be easy. Maybe with some practice. I've already spent way too much time on this entry. Time, I suppose, I could have been reading. Now, it's time to go get a haircut.