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How Drarry Saved Julchen
Mar. 14th, 2018 01:58 pmOn September 1, 1998, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was released in the US. I was 25 years old, with a toddler and a three-month-old. Their bookshelves were full of Dr Seuss and Sandra Boynton board books, and I wasn't yet paying attention to current chapter books for grade-school kids.
A year later, Chamber of Secrets was published, and Prisoner of Azkaban soon after, and everyone was talking about Harry Potter. I asked a friend of mine, a children's librarian, if I should pick up the books, and she said, "Enh...they're pretty standard examples of the British-children's-boarding-school-adventures genre. Not a must-read." So I didn't.
Goblet of Fire came out in 2000 and I started to wonder if maybe I was missing something truly important. I happened to be in a Barnes & Noble that had the first three paperbacks on discount to celebrate the new hardcover. The store staff had made elaborate castle turrets of the paperbacks and the display was irresistible. I picked up the first book, took it home, and didn't put it down for two days. Every minute that my kids didn't require two eyes and both hands was spent reading. I inhaled it, and when I finished, I turned right back to the first page and started again. Better late than never, I was hooked.
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A year later, Chamber of Secrets was published, and Prisoner of Azkaban soon after, and everyone was talking about Harry Potter. I asked a friend of mine, a children's librarian, if I should pick up the books, and she said, "Enh...they're pretty standard examples of the British-children's-boarding-school-adventures genre. Not a must-read." So I didn't.
Goblet of Fire came out in 2000 and I started to wonder if maybe I was missing something truly important. I happened to be in a Barnes & Noble that had the first three paperbacks on discount to celebrate the new hardcover. The store staff had made elaborate castle turrets of the paperbacks and the display was irresistible. I picked up the first book, took it home, and didn't put it down for two days. Every minute that my kids didn't require two eyes and both hands was spent reading. I inhaled it, and when I finished, I turned right back to the first page and started again. Better late than never, I was hooked.
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