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Sunday, July 17, 2005
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OBLIGATORY HARRY POTTER POST UD’s Joyce-themed (first two names, Anna Livia), fourteen-year-old spawn is wild for Harry and has now read the latest book in the series and reported the same feelings of despair and why go on as all the other Potter-mad blogspawn whose parents have written about them this morning... UD herself isn’t drawn to the Rowling books (her husband, currently in Kurdistan, likes the novels, but none are unavailable in his palatial compound -- a place that sounds, now that I think of it, much like Hogwart’s). She does enjoy, though, recalling the curious circumstances of her daughter’s reading of each book as it was released. For one of the releases, they were in Ubud, Bali. UD had ordered it way in advance from Amazon, and there it was, waiting for her excited child in the town’s ramshackle post office. For another, they were in Biarritz, and they assumed they wouldn’t be able to find the English edition on the day of its release. Which was silly - Biarritz is a very British French resort, and they picked up the book at the first bookstore they visited. The kid marched the book down to the beach, got herself comfortable, and didn’t move for the next four hours. |