[LM_NET] Enough? Never

["Diane R. Chen" <dianerchen@COMCAST.NET>]

     How could I possibly have enough of a phenom. that caused the 
world to stop and read a series of books? I blogged about my 
experiences at midnight for the last release at 
http://deepthinking.blogsome.com/2007/07/22/common-sense/ If you 
weren't there, you missed a vital experience of our time. Sure, I 
could have lain around waiting for the UPS truck, but I chose to 
participate in our cultural phenom. instead of stay in my ivory tower.
     My #1 and #2 sons are at basic training and trying to find a way 
to smuggle a copy of the book in to their bays. The platoon's latest 
scheme is for me to rip the covers off and paste religious books 
around the outside of HPDeathlyHallows to try to smuggle it past the 
drill sargents. My son let them know that most librarians (and 
especially his mom) would consider it a sacrareligion to tear off a 
cover of a book, and that the DS' are probably smart enough to 
recognize the size of HP. Instead both sons have asked me to take the 
book with me when I come to visit them. One will have some hours 
around graduation to read. The other has a 36 hour pass coming up and 
plans to finish the book then. I had to remind him that his 
girlfriend would be there, and that we might want to visit with him, 
but he reminded me that we are talking about book 7 of a series that 
he has been reading for the past 10 years. We had a first printing 
copy of book #1 that absolutely fell apart from 6 of us reading in 
our house. All of our books are well-loved and read multiple times.
      I have watched students grades 1-4 reading this book. Even if 
they only finish the first four while in elementary, that's still an 
amazing amount of reading. A group of about 20 have read up to the 
last one before they left fourth grade. Moreover, Harry Potter 
inspired the kids to talk about books. This has extended to other 
series with them giving me shopping lists of books. HP let them know 
they are in control of getting what they want and reading what they 
want. They refuse to let the adults take over this series and take it 
away from them.
     Have I had enough? Never! Send me another book that the entire 
world wants to read.

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Diane R. Chen, Library Information Specialist
CELL: 615 310-7247
Hickman Elementary, 112 Stewart's Ferry Pike
Nashville, TN 37214 TEL: 615 884-4026
Personal Email: DianeRChen@comcast.net
Work Email:      diane.chen@mnps.org
Blogs at http://deepthinking.blogsome.com
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/830000283.html 

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