HP6 and other things

[icepixie]

Hmmm. I was thinking PT would be along the lines of "here are exercises, do them, come back in a month if you're still needing Advil to function," but actually it's two hour-long appointments a week for the next month. *shrug* But they think it'll solve my problem, so I'm all for anything that does that, oh yes I am.

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I'm taking HP6 kind of slowly, mainly because my attention span was destroyed in high school, and college hasn't really helped it get back up to normal levels. Started this morning and am now through Chapter Seven.

So is Snape-being-evil something that was actually shown in the other books, or is this shocking and new to have actual evidence of his evilness? 'Cause there is a big, blank hole in my brain where GOF and OOTP are concerned. I probably should have reread them before starting this one. Oh, well.

So freaking glad Harry has grown out of his teenaged angst phase, OMG.

I love Luna Lovegood. I love her because she says things like "I enjoyed the [DADA] meetings too...It was like having friends," and I HAVE SO BEEN THERE.

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I went to a used bookstore (Book Attic) after my PT appointment and traded in a bunch of my old paperbacks. (There was a big bookcase cleanout yesterday when my parents came home with HP6 and I realized that I had nowhere to put it, and I mean not even on top of a shelf or in front of a row of books. It was that bad.) Came back with eleven more paperbacks, and I still have $3.60 or 4 SFF books in credit. I love those people. I now have everything for comps with the exception of Beowulf, which it looks like I'll have to buy new online or at B&N (after I get a refund from the kid I "bought" The Marriage of Heaven and Hell from at Amazon's Marketplace...the estimated delivery range runs out tomorrow, and I don't think he/she ever bothered to ship it). Any free-floating Anglo-Saxon scholars reading this wanna give me advice on which translation to buy? I'm leaning towards Seamus Heaney's, as I enjoyed his version of Sweeney Astray, but I'm really kind of clueless.

Got a bunch of other SFF stuff, mostly by people I've heard of but haven't gotten around to reading anything by yet. Ended up with My Antonia, because I'm going through an Old(ish) (Mid)West phase. I think it's mostly to do with the combination of coming back into the country and watching a lot Carnivale.

Comments

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

I refuse to guess which way Rowling is going with Snape, but it is fun the way she's worked it. It completely works if you take it at face value and he's evil. But then there's the hints that are really obvious if you look for them that he's good.

Either way, she's playing us all entertainingly well. :)

[icepixie]

Either way, she's playing us all entertainingly well. :)

Yes. Yes, she is. My respect for her as a writer grew hugely after this book.