Harry Potter

I did start to read Tristram Shandy a few months ago, as I said in my last post. But having already read it once, I lost interest about 100 pages in. I went through a bit of a dry spell after that, and didn't read much of anything, to be honest. And then Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 2 came out in theatres. I immediately knew that I needed to reread the series, since I had only read Books 3-7 once, as they were published, with big gaps in between. So in a matter of two weeks I reread Books 1-3. It was a blast revisiting Hogwarts, and I found I had forgotten a lot of things, like Peeves the Poltergeist and trips to Hogsmeade. I still intend to reread the rest of the series, but I'm taking a bit of a break at the moment.

I stopped by Border's this weekend to check out their going-out-of-business sale. Talk about paradise for a book nerd like me! I totally geeked out for about an hour, until the store closed, combing the half-off bookshelves for authors or titles that looked familiar. So my next few posts, in no particular order, will be on the following books:

So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
World Without End by Ken Follett
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
Contemporary American Short Fiction selected by Joyce Carol Oates