*blink* "Ow." *blink* "Ow." *blink* "Ow."

[thistlechaser]

Paying for reading for 18 hours without reading glasses (am very blind, so glasses/contacts are very strong, reading glasses weaken them so I'm not over-corrected for close-up work). Hard to focus eyes, headache, dry eyes to the max. To the max, baby!

I'm very, very much enjoying reading everyone else's thoughts on the book. I no longer really deal with my friendsfriends list, I now just go to various peoples' friends pages, depending on what I'm looking for. (McTabby's for HP friendsfriends foo, Hyper's for MUSH player friendsfriends, Mallen's for Bay Area friendsfriends, etc.) The HP fandom (at least this circle of it) is made up of smart, well-written folk. I'm proud to be part of this fandom more than any one I was a part of before.



While getting ready for work this morning, I noticed I didn't really mind Ginny anymore. I don't *love* her, but I don't dislike her anymore, either. She's maturing nicely.



I half-want to read the book again, but I'm not ready to. I'm sure that reading a book this long straight through was not the way to experience it. I wonder if part of the reason I wasn't happy with it was because I pushed myself to finish it quickly? Once I'm ready to look at it again (not for a while), I'll give it another chance. I almost feel guilty for not taking good notes, too. I did for the first few chapters, then gave it up and just read.

Comments

[tersa.livejournal.com]

'Forcing' yourself to read a book may definitely cause negative feelings towards the book itself.

I'm going to have to avoid reading your reviews of it, unfortunately...mostly because you keep grousing so much about how it's not like the fics. :/ Which makes me sad, because I *would* otherwise love to talk to you about it. For those of us who don't read and don't want to read the fics, thought, it's a poor review style. Sorry. :}

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Understandable! Sorry, too. :)

[frances-jane.livejournal.com]

I agree about reading the book straight through. When I finished it this morning I couldn't think of a single part I liked in the whole story - the exhaustion just made it seem like a huge, depressing anti-climax. There were a few parts of the book that made me cry, but in my hurry to read on, it was affecting how I enjoyed other, unconnected storylines.

Am now flicking through random parts of the books though, and re-reading certain chapters - and I'm loving it.

With a book of this length you (well, I) need time to sit back and reflect on what you've just read. Random re-reads might make you appreciate different parts more, too.

Btw, I'm with you on the Ginny thing. I actually *liked* OotP!Ginny.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Looking back on it now, I'm picking up more things I liked. Also, I'm looking forward to getting home tonight so I can reread some things. (The Snape chapter especially. Mmm.)