The boy who lived
All right, after a couple of weeks of hemming and hawing on this I'm going to go for it: all six Harry Potter novels over the next 40 days, timed to drop the last page of Prince at 11:59 on July 20 so that I can run straight into Hallows at 12:00. I need to be hitting about 70 pages a day to pull this off which means I need to be through Philosopher's Stone on Wednesday. I've already booked some cottage time to cram through Goblet because otherwise I won't be able to recover from the page deficit that Philadelphia will naturally create. Good news being, however, I will probably finish Phoenix on the day the movie comes out. Swell timing, that.
You can track my progress via the ever-useful "currently enreadulating" gizmo in the right-hand column here on the blog. Hoorah for faux interactivity!
It should be noted that I have essentially turned into a British man.
Comments
One way to speed through the books is to get the audio books. I did that when the last Harry Potter book came out and managed to get through the series quite quickly. I would listening to the audio books while driving, doing chores and other such things that you can't read while doing.
If you do take up my suggestion, make sure you get the UK versions with Stephen Fry, rather than the American versions with Jim Dale. Harry Potter just sounds better being read by someone with a British accent. Not to mention that Stephen Fry could make reading a phone book sound incredibly interesting.
Posted by: Matthew Fabb | June 11, 2007 11:04 PM