Slowly but surely I am trucking through the Harry Potter series (again). Actually, that is misleading. I only made it through 2.5 books the first time. I got scared. Hey, I was sensitive?
Yet the time has come where I am no longer (such) a scaredy-cat. Furthermore, a coworker of mine is in love with the series, and I trust her judgment. It's hard to relate to a generation of Twilight-lovers and Potter-lovers and Katniss-lovers if I have never read the books myself. But before I started in, I needed a blank slate. I had to get past how I heard this series was un-Christian. And geeky. I think all readers go through this at some point. I know that The Hunger Games was talked up as it gained more and more devoted followers, and some people who read the series during/after the hype were severely disappointed. I didn't want this to happen to me.
As of now, I am able to move through as a first-time reader. And I must say, while I'm not obsessed with finding the time to read and neglecting my work, I am enjoying the reread. And moving on from a dystopian world to a fantastical one isn't a bad trade.
Though you know me as one who is not prone to YAL, I was one of those readers who bought each Harry Potter book the first day it was released and had finished it by the same evening. I hope you enjoy the stories on this re-reading adventure of yours. :)
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