How to say goodbye to an old friend..
Hi Darlings, hope holidays are treating all of you well.
I know all you RL friends either don't like reading, don't have time to read or don't consider Harry Potter as the number one influence in you childhood, but I encourage you all to try the big Harry Potter Reread that's making the rounds. Basically, starting from Christmas eve (which has past, yes I do realise), you read a chapter a day until it all conveniently wraps up with the release of the Deathly Hallows movie Part 2.
I'm finding this reread completely agonising because there's nothing I want to do more other than Darren Criss than read ahead and finish the series in a month. As painful as it is to put the book down after only one chapter, I think having Harry Potter on my bedside table for the next seven months will be a sweet way to 'say goodbye,' what with the next movie wrapping up the entire franchise, for this decade anyway. I already know I'm going to be crying bucketloads (in my Slytherin uniform) all through the last movie, so I expect that having Harry back in my head for the next seven months will make me a hundred times more emotional. Goodbye Childhood :(
Also, under the cut is a pretty picspam of the books I managed to read in 2010.
Nine whole books; I am immensely disappointed. There's no hope of me ever completing the 50 Book Challenge unless I choose unemployment as a career and stop reading fanfic, but yeh, not going to happen.
Most of these are rereads and wow I read a lot of Austen and lol I was stuck in the nineteenth century this year. In my defence, I felt it was necessary to cleanse my brain with some good classics and repent for all the fangirling I did over Twilight last year. Let's not ever mention Twilight again, it's embarassing enough that I gave it a tag on this blog.
I highly recommend The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. Both are amazing amazing reads.
