The email from Amazon telling me the download was ready came at…
The email from Amazon telling me the download was ready came at 12:27 this morning, but I was already asleep. Then I needed to help get William up and off to school, and have my own breakfast, but finally I was able to settle back into bed and start reading. I’d already read the first chapter in the preview, but I read it again, and kept going.
It struck me again, the way it did the first time: Why begin with a fictionalized but unmistakable faux-Wikipedia entry? And a fictionalized but unmistakable Harry Potter? Why lampshade the unreality of the world like that? Isn’t that going to get in the way? Isn’t it going to make it harder for me to believe in the world, to invest in the characters? Isn’t it—
And then it was real. Now it’s 90 minutes later and I’m on page 81 and dammit it’s time for work. But I’ve got a good idea what I’m going to be doing at 2:00 tomorrow morning.
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/60851870598.
Tags: rainbow rowell, fangirl, reblogbookclub.
