Reading Marathon
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borgmama1of5So, I am reading the last Harry Potter aloud to my 17 & 19 year old daughters at their request, as that is how we read the first 5 books together.
Started Saturday night (book delivered from Amazon on Saturday) after coming home from all day at the Ren Faire. Read 3 chapters.
Sunday got in 2 chapters in the morning before Adrienne had to leave for work, and 3 more chapters when we were all home again at 9 pm.
Today I read 2+ hours in the afternoon and 3 1/2 hours tonight, stopping at 12:30 am because I have to work tomorrow morning. All together I have read aloud for 9 chapters today, for close to 6 hours. I just did the math, I read 198 pages, which translates to 33 pages an hour. 475 pages to go--14 1/2 more hours.
On the one hand, it's torturous to go so slowly, having to put the book down for hours. And yet it also means that I have time to savor what I have read, instead of racing through it at breakneck speed to reach the end and then finding it has all become muddled in the middle. And surprisingly I am not, as I've done with the previous books, spending time speculating about what is going to happen next--my mind seems to have taken the position that Rowling is so far ahead of me that speculation is pointless.
We have one poor friend who finished the complete book in one day. She desparately wants to talk about it but is restraining herself admirably. I did ask her to choose between two words to describe how she felt when she had finished: satisfied or distressed. She chose satisfied, maybe that's why I've put aside speculating.
Wonder if I'll have a voice left by the end?
Started Saturday night (book delivered from Amazon on Saturday) after coming home from all day at the Ren Faire. Read 3 chapters.
Sunday got in 2 chapters in the morning before Adrienne had to leave for work, and 3 more chapters when we were all home again at 9 pm.
Today I read 2+ hours in the afternoon and 3 1/2 hours tonight, stopping at 12:30 am because I have to work tomorrow morning. All together I have read aloud for 9 chapters today, for close to 6 hours. I just did the math, I read 198 pages, which translates to 33 pages an hour. 475 pages to go--14 1/2 more hours.
On the one hand, it's torturous to go so slowly, having to put the book down for hours. And yet it also means that I have time to savor what I have read, instead of racing through it at breakneck speed to reach the end and then finding it has all become muddled in the middle. And surprisingly I am not, as I've done with the previous books, spending time speculating about what is going to happen next--my mind seems to have taken the position that Rowling is so far ahead of me that speculation is pointless.
We have one poor friend who finished the complete book in one day. She desparately wants to talk about it but is restraining herself admirably. I did ask her to choose between two words to describe how she felt when she had finished: satisfied or distressed. She chose satisfied, maybe that's why I've put aside speculating.
Wonder if I'll have a voice left by the end?
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Date: 2007-07-24 08:42 pm (UTC)