Change of Plans

Why must Higher Things consistently plan their conferences for mere DAYS following Harry Potter releases???

The boys must read the book prior to arriving in Minneapolis, where many a friend will have already read the book and be discussing it -- and letting slip spoilers.

We put the audio-book on hold at the library. We had hoped to listen all day today and tomorrow and part of Monday. I don't know whether the audio-book is available in bookstores, but it's not available yet at the library (as I was disappointed to find this morning when I tried to pick up the book). Happily, the grocery store had a cartful of The Deathly Hallows for a mere $22 each, so I grabbed one this morning.

There's just not enough books to go around our house so that we can read it to ourselves prior to the HigherThings-imposed deadline. So we're attempting to do tag-team reading-aloud. Don't know if this is going to work. Sure did mess up all sorts of plans for having Jim Dale read to us today while we build swords, puttered in the kitchen, folded laundry, and other things.

If it weren't for HT, we could enjoy reading this book at the leisurely rate of 100 pages of reading aloud per day. But now it's just stressful to try to get to the end of the story in three short days. We've been waiting for this book for years. And now it's just become another chore for me instead of something to enjoy.