I’m fully immersed now in the latest Harry Potter book, having reached page 650 or thereabouts by the time I gave up and crashed last night. With only a little more than 200 pages to go, I can’t wait to finish it. J.K. Rowling has some fantastic lines and scenes, as always, such as Dumbledore’s escape and Harry’s scenes with Cho. I love, too, the love advice of Hermoine.
Unfortunately, the one aspect of reading the books that I haven’t enjoyed is the movies. As I’m reading them, I find my own mental characterizations and settings intwined with that of the two movies. While I did enjoy the movies, I’m not enjoying the effect they’re having on my reading of the books. I don’t necessarily agree with all the representations from the book, and while I do believe that the adult characters were cast well, I don’t much enjoy their impressions tresspassing on my thoughts. It’s quite distracting, really…
Oh, and why does it seem she constantly end her sentences with “…”…? It’s amazing… It felt as though whole paragraphs appeared to never end with a definitive period… It does help maintain the pace somewhat…but it can start feeling distracting as well… There is such a thing as overboard, after all…