More Books
I've still got to do a post about lambing, but I'll get my bookish post out the way first (mainly because I've not finished organising the lambing pictures yet).
Book 35 of 2010 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
08/04/10 - 11/04/10
This is easily my least favourite of the Harry Potter series, but reading it this time around I found myself wondering why. I'm not sure exactly why my feelings towards this one have changed, but it just didn't bug me as much as it has in the past.
Lockhart is still an annoying, smarmy bastard. The Chamber is still opened, people are still petrified, and I found myself really enjoying it, rather than looking forward to finishing it so I could get on to the next one (which is my favourite).
While I've been rereading these ones this time I've been following the chapters along with the WikiBook's Muggle's Guide To Harry Potter mainly because it's interesting to see how things link to the other books. That might be what helped me to enjoy this one a lot more, because I was seeing links between it and the final book which I've maybe not been so aware of before.
This time while I was reading it I found myself marvelling at how neatly everything in Harry's world ties together throughout the series of books. I love the way that things which just get a passing mention in the first three books come back around into something big and important in the later ones.
Book 36 of 2010 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
12/04/10 - 18/04/10
It took me a little bit longer to read this one this time (compared to the last time I read it). Part of that was probably because the day I started it I went lambing so I read the first paragraph (so I could say I had started it) spent the whole day in fields and in the polytunnel delivering lambs and then collapsed into bed, only managing to read another ten pages before I couldn't keep my eyes open any more.
The following day I managed to read to the end of the second chapter but I was still recovering. Wednesday I wasn't at work, so less reading time anyway. Thursday and Friday I was at work, catching up with things after being off, and then it was the weekend and I hardly have any time to read at weekends. In some respects it's amazing that I finished it at all (on Sunday night I snuggled up in bed with around a hundred pages still to go and I was determined I was going to finish it before I went to sleep).
Part of the reason that it took me a little longer to read, aside from all that stuff mentioned above, is that it's not been that long since I read it last. Sometimes I can pick up a book, read it, then three hours later pick it up for another reading session. But what with everything else going on, and probably the way I've been devouring books this year, I wasn't really in the mood for something I've read fairly recently, even if it was one of my favourite books.
That said, I still love it. I kept on wanting to underline things and draw smiley faces and love hearts in the page margins (which I shouldn't do unless it's a book tree book, seems like ages until next month because I read this month's tree books within a couple of days of getting them)!
I was planning on going on to read the next Lynda La Plante book but when I went to the library to get Silent Scream I came away with Clean Cut (damn you alliteration!) which I only read a couple of weeks ago. I've started Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire instead, so hopefully I can take a trip to the library on Friday to get the real next Lynda La Plante book.
Book 35 of 2010 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
08/04/10 - 11/04/10
This is easily my least favourite of the Harry Potter series, but reading it this time around I found myself wondering why. I'm not sure exactly why my feelings towards this one have changed, but it just didn't bug me as much as it has in the past.
Lockhart is still an annoying, smarmy bastard. The Chamber is still opened, people are still petrified, and I found myself really enjoying it, rather than looking forward to finishing it so I could get on to the next one (which is my favourite).
While I've been rereading these ones this time I've been following the chapters along with the WikiBook's Muggle's Guide To Harry Potter mainly because it's interesting to see how things link to the other books. That might be what helped me to enjoy this one a lot more, because I was seeing links between it and the final book which I've maybe not been so aware of before.
This time while I was reading it I found myself marvelling at how neatly everything in Harry's world ties together throughout the series of books. I love the way that things which just get a passing mention in the first three books come back around into something big and important in the later ones.
Book 36 of 2010 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
12/04/10 - 18/04/10
It took me a little bit longer to read this one this time (compared to the last time I read it). Part of that was probably because the day I started it I went lambing so I read the first paragraph (so I could say I had started it) spent the whole day in fields and in the polytunnel delivering lambs and then collapsed into bed, only managing to read another ten pages before I couldn't keep my eyes open any more.
The following day I managed to read to the end of the second chapter but I was still recovering. Wednesday I wasn't at work, so less reading time anyway. Thursday and Friday I was at work, catching up with things after being off, and then it was the weekend and I hardly have any time to read at weekends. In some respects it's amazing that I finished it at all (on Sunday night I snuggled up in bed with around a hundred pages still to go and I was determined I was going to finish it before I went to sleep).
Part of the reason that it took me a little longer to read, aside from all that stuff mentioned above, is that it's not been that long since I read it last. Sometimes I can pick up a book, read it, then three hours later pick it up for another reading session. But what with everything else going on, and probably the way I've been devouring books this year, I wasn't really in the mood for something I've read fairly recently, even if it was one of my favourite books.
That said, I still love it. I kept on wanting to underline things and draw smiley faces and love hearts in the page margins (which I shouldn't do unless it's a book tree book, seems like ages until next month because I read this month's tree books within a couple of days of getting them)!
I was planning on going on to read the next Lynda La Plante book but when I went to the library to get Silent Scream I came away with Clean Cut (damn you alliteration!) which I only read a couple of weeks ago. I've started Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire instead, so hopefully I can take a trip to the library on Friday to get the real next Lynda La Plante book.