borgmama1of5 | The End Is Near!

Read 159 pages over 4 1/2 hours--my reading rate has gone up a tiny bit, to 34 pages per hour. I suspect that can be attributed to the frantic pace of what's happening...more than once I had to stop because I was reading so fast my tongue got twisted...

But we had to stop 4 chapters from the end because 2 of the 3 of us have to get up early--grrrr!!!!!!!!!!!! 100 pages to go and Rowling just threw in another mystery, and there's a huge battle between the forces of good and evil going on, and based on what's happened so far I'm sure we're going to lose more favorite characters, and Harry still doesn't know how he's going to vanquish Voldemort!!!!!!!!

And the absolute worst bit is that, due to totally incompatible schedules, we won't be able to read again until Monday night!!!!!!!!

(The absolute funnest thing about reading this out loud has been Adrienne's and Erica's reactions--Yelling "shit" when a bad guy shows up at the wrong moment, clapping in glee when a good guy arrives in the nick of time, collapsing onto each other in relief when another catastrophe has been survived--they are a very rewarding audience. They were exhausted when I stopped tonight.)