Harry Potter Reading Challenge
We’ve finished The Chamber of Secrets and started working on The Prisoner of Azkaban. I think at the rate we are going we will be able to listen to all the books and read at least the first three or four before the July 31, 2010 deadline for this challenge.
The Chronicles of Narnia was the first audio book set we ever listened to, we used it before and during our move as away to keep Miss Muffin entertained. She had just seen the first movie and really wanted to know more about the series. Since then the only other book we’ve listened to besides the Harry Potter ones is A Christmas Carol on our way to see the Disney train tour this summer.
The Chamber of Secrets has never been my favorite of the Harry Potter books, but it certainly is one that lays a lot of foundation for things to come. I think that one of the things is that the early books were edited much more strictly than the later ones, cut down to child size and so there is sometimes that sense of lost time, a feeling of having missed something or of lurching unevenly along the school year.
Glad they gave up on that by the time the last few were coming out, can you imagine The Deathly Hallows at a quarter the size?
