Me vs. Harry Potter

As you may know, since becoming a college grad, there is a bit more free time on my plate than I have ever had. My mom always put it well, "You need to stay busy to get things done." It's true. I need a list of things to do, otherwise nothing gets done. I have found that I have a lot of hobbies, including art and crafts. I have put together a lot of social events for friends and family, and put collages of pictures from those events together (don't believe me? Come by the house...)

So as of late, the books I have been TRYING to read have been flops (at least for me). I tried reading The Lovely Bones, but being a recent college grad in "The Great Recession" and lots of clouds and no sun will make a girl depressed, so I had to stop because it was making me more sad. So, with the movie coming out, I picked up Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Let me just say, being familiar the movie helped LOTS, because that book was a difficult read. It was like reading a college text book. NOT pleasure reading. At this point I gave up on trying to find a good book to read, because it is very rare that I can't make it through a good fiction book. But then, an idea hit me: While reading about the up coming TWO movies to cover the seventh book of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, I got the idea to tackle the entire series again before the new movies come out. My plan is to re-read each book and watch the movies in between books.

So far, so good! I have already completed the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I BLEW through it. Yes, it's an easy read, but there are many details and descriptions in the book that didn't make it into the movie that I had since forgotten. It has been many, many years since I had read it, so it was really fun to read. I have also already Netflix'd and watched the movie. Now on to the next!

I am already about half way though, but during my recent trip home to California, I fell asleep with the book in bed and I think it fell behind the bed. I packed up and left without Harry! Ugh. I'll probably just go to the library and check it out until I go back to my Dad's for Jackie's graduation. So far though, there are way more details in this book that I had forgotten about than the first. I must have breezed though it too fast all those many years ago :)

I'll keep you detailed on my project here... all is otherwise good. I have this feeling that some big changes are on the way though. :) (If it's not, I'm gonna make it happen!!!)