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mayhapWhat I've been reading
I finished rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, after having temporarily stalled out about a seventh of the way into the book a week ago as previously mentioned. The first time I read it I was dying to find out what was going to happen next, obviously, after lining up at Barnes and Noble at midnight, and on subsequent rereads I had an eye to future speculation and fanfic fodder, so in a way the book couldn't be too long or include too much, even though it could be a bit repetitive. Attempting to read the series straight through, purely for pleasure, and of course already knowing the ending, the suddenly slackened pace really tells.
I reread Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was…divisive, back in the day, but which I have always adored if for no other reason than that it gave us Draco Malfoy crying in the bathroom. I get the impression that J.K. Rowling will have thought, when she came to pen this storyline, that at last Draco's misaimed fandom would realize how unworthy he was of their affections, and if so this could not have been less effective with me. I do still hate the romance plots in this book though; not any of the ships themselves, but the way everyone is constantly hounding everyone else to stop dating someone and/or start dating someone else. I'd ask if other people's social circles were like that at sixteen or something, but the adults are just as bad so that's no explanation.
I reread Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which I still find pretty satisfying on the whole, even if it meanders a bit into some deadish ends. I got choked up all over again from chapter thirty-four onwards; I think that part where Harry finally realizes what he has to do and does it is the best bit of writing in the whole series.
What I'm reading next
I'm thinking about rereading the Narnia books next. Actually what I really want is to read the Fillory books, but as they don't exist I'll have to make do with our universe's equivalent. Note that while I have reread all the other books scads of times—Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Horse and His Boy most often, The Silver Chair least often—I have literally never once been able to make myself pick up The Last Battle again because it made me so mad, so that should be interesting.
I finished rereading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, after having temporarily stalled out about a seventh of the way into the book a week ago as previously mentioned. The first time I read it I was dying to find out what was going to happen next, obviously, after lining up at Barnes and Noble at midnight, and on subsequent rereads I had an eye to future speculation and fanfic fodder, so in a way the book couldn't be too long or include too much, even though it could be a bit repetitive. Attempting to read the series straight through, purely for pleasure, and of course already knowing the ending, the suddenly slackened pace really tells.
I reread Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was…divisive, back in the day, but which I have always adored if for no other reason than that it gave us Draco Malfoy crying in the bathroom. I get the impression that J.K. Rowling will have thought, when she came to pen this storyline, that at last Draco's misaimed fandom would realize how unworthy he was of their affections, and if so this could not have been less effective with me. I do still hate the romance plots in this book though; not any of the ships themselves, but the way everyone is constantly hounding everyone else to stop dating someone and/or start dating someone else. I'd ask if other people's social circles were like that at sixteen or something, but the adults are just as bad so that's no explanation.
I reread Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which I still find pretty satisfying on the whole, even if it meanders a bit into some deadish ends. I got choked up all over again from chapter thirty-four onwards; I think that part where Harry finally realizes what he has to do and does it is the best bit of writing in the whole series.
What I'm reading next
I'm thinking about rereading the Narnia books next. Actually what I really want is to read the Fillory books, but as they don't exist I'll have to make do with our universe's equivalent. Note that while I have reread all the other books scads of times—Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Horse and His Boy most often, The Silver Chair least often—I have literally never once been able to make myself pick up The Last Battle again because it made me so mad, so that should be interesting.
