[Artemisia] OT and OOP Harry Potter

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I discovered the HP series just in time for book 4, IIRC.  Spending time in Alan and Amy's living room, post-Uprising, maybe?, and their son, Roland was reading them.
They are the *only* series I deliberately purchased all in hardback.

I'm lucky with my family--we were literate in the same way that we breathe oxygen and had backbones and opposable thumbs.  To be otherwise, wasn't even thought of.  Our house was full of magazines and books.  We got books for presents at most major and some minor holidays.  I'd still rather read than see a movie or t.v. show....
--Maire
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  From: Georgia Foster<mailto:jo_foster81 at hotmail.com> 
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  I discovered "Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone" in a book store and it looked like fun, so I got a copy and read it.  I enjoyed it so I put it in the bookshelves at children-height.
   
  The eldest found it, read it, loved it, and began to read aloud to the younger siblings in exactly the way I had read other books aloud to her and her brother when they were too little to read for themselves.
   
  My ex instilled a hatred of reading in my kids.  The ex, you may understand, never saw the utility of reading for recreation and loathed reading for education (because it was required).
   
  I am pleased to report that the Harry Potter series has kindled a love of reading for recreation in my younger two children and revived a tradition of reading aloud in my older two children.
   
  I am the first to admit that the hype is just that ... but what the heck?  I would much rather they be hyped about books than many if not most of the options available.
   
  two pennies nonce
   
  Cheers
   
  Malkin
  Otherhill
  Artemisia

  Jo (Georgia L.) Foster jo_foster81 at hotmail.comNever<mailto:jo_foster81 at hotmail.comNever> knock on death's door........ Ring the doorbell and run. He hates that.
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