harry potter

we are both harry potter junkies. we admit it openly. as you can see, the final book of the harry potter series comes out in roughly 36 days. a few months ago spencer came into our room one morning while i was sleeping. he woke me up and told me to "guess when harry potter 7 comes out!" knowing it was coming out in july (don't ask me how i knew) and knowing spencer's excitement i said, "on my birthday." "yes!" spencer answered, "happy birthday, honey!" spencer was (and i'm sure is) much more excited than i am. i am very excited for the next and final book, but it was so fun to see spencer so excited. we decided that for my birthday i would be the one to go pick up the book from costco and i could decide when to come home that day. spencer has been willing to let me read to my heart's content. since then we decided we would order the book from amazon. they guarantee delivery on july 21 (i think before or by noon). they also guarantee the lowest price until july 21. we've already received notice that the price has gone down once since we ordered. i'm not sure i want to use my birthday present on reading harry potter 7 as long as i want, especially because it's so fun reading it together.

when book 6 came out we went to barnes & noble at midnight to get it. on the way home i started reading out loud. we went on to read together for a few more chapters. then, on our way to lake powell a couple of days later, i read out loud to spencer again. once on the house boat we had to read silently together. there were 3 or 4 other people reading all at different paces. we had a great time sharing that with each other - especially toward the end when we would stop and look at each other and re-read certain sections. because of how much fun it was to read it together and talk about it after, i don't think i will read it on my own first. we'll see how it goes.

two or three months ago we re-read books 5 and 6 in preparation for number 7. unfortunately that was too early to read those. there was way too much time left. spencer started reading over at number 1. i was busy reading another book, so it took me a little longer to start again. it worked out well for spencer to have a head start so we weren't trying to read the same book. spencer has made it back to book 6 already and is going strong. i am currently on book 2. that's the only one we've had to check out from the library. we have all the others here. at the library yesterday, the only copy they had checked in was their large print edition. i may go blind reading it, but it'll be worth it, right? who knows if i'll make it through book 6 again, but it will be fun trying.