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June 24, 2003
Entry: "Harry & Tim"

Tim- I responded to your email but it bounced back to me... is your email screwy?

I finished Harry around 9 last night. I think I should have waited a week or so... after some sleep and relaxation. The event was still buzzing in my ears and I think I went into it wanting more than another Harry Potter... it's hard to live with the promotion and buzz for five months and not expect the impossibly fantastic. ;) Still, it was a great read. Her ability to communicate the entire look and attitude of a character with a single gesture or word is remarkable. Reading her writing is like having a movie playing in my head... I can see and hear all of her characters perfectly. Which is probably why the movies, while good representations of the books, seem redundant... paler copies.

Anyway.

After reading Harry in my spare waking moments for three days I needed something different... a little more adult, and so started The Songs of The Kings by Barry Unsworth. I'm not sure I'm going to make it all the way through... I tend not to like this sort of thing. But the writing is very good. I gave up on 1929... the writing was fantastic, but I ran into a scene that really annoyed me. And I didn't get over it. I also have an advance copy of The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester (author of Proffesor and the Madman and Krakatoa) which looks interesting. My track record with non-fiction is terrible, but I may at least browse through. I also have some kids books I've been wanting to read. I never read The Theif Lord by Cornelia Funke but heard wonderful things about it, and her new book, Inkheart is due out this Fall. So between the advance copy I have of that, and What the Birds See by Sonya Hartnett, in addition to the above temptations, I don't know what I'll end up with...