View From the Bushes

I think I said earlier that I didn't think I would have time to read the new Harry Potter book, but after putting in a solid day of work I decided that I needed a break and my wife had already picked it up from our local discount store (Costco a steal at only $16!) So I sat down and started reading. As of this writing I'm around page 200. For some books that might be a lot, but since this book is 870 pages Harry has just barely made it back to Hogwarts.

The problem with really famous authors is that they become increasingly difficult to edit. I have that problem with some of my authors. I'll say something like I really think that this whole tangent in the adventure about the purple dinosaur who's really nice is too cheesy. And they'll say, "BUT I LIKE BARNEY!" I got a years subscription for anyone who can name the author (primarily because I made it up as a hyperbolic example to make a humorous point....and now I've killed it).

At this rate I should be done with the book by the time I post my next blog so if anyone is interested I'll post a capsule review. I'll probably do that regardless of the interest level, daily content can be hard to come by. So far as most reviewer have mentioned it's a darker book. Harry is definitely not the boy he was before he saw a fellow student murdered before his eyes, his parents come spectres rise from the grave and the most evil wizard ever brought back from the dead. Somehow that changed him, I'm not sure why.