I always said I’d never read Harry Potter. Not because of the usual conservative C mumbo-jumbo about it being witchcraft and morally off-base, but because I just don’t like that stuff. I’m not big into fantasy or sci-fi. Then I came to China and all of my students wanted to talk about Harry Potter. I held out until the spring of 2008 before giving in. I think I read all seven books in a three week time span, and if you’ve ever read them you know they aren’t small books. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed them, and was a little sad when it was over.
Then last spring the next big craze was Twilight. I didn’t even pretend to hold out, I just gave in and read them all. (Note: Even so, I am no twi-hard.)
And on Wednesday I started to read The Lightning Thief, the first book of Rick Riordan’s series “Percy Jackson & The Olympians.” Continue reading
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