Read: Harry Potter Book #1

サクサクっと本を読みたくなって、何年かぶりかで「ハリー・ポッター」を手に取りました。

サクサクと言っても、夜寝る前にちまちま読むので２週間ぐらいかかって読み終えました。
読むの３度目ぐらい？１度目は映画が出る前に読んだので、もう１０年以上たってるのね。
大人の今読んでも結構楽しめるけど、子供のころに読んでいたらきっとものすごくはまったと思う。

１巻は短いからいいんだけど、やっぱり１巻読んだら全巻読まないと気がすまないし、２巻以降は分厚くなるばかりなんだよねぇ・・・。読むのが２度目でも３度目でも、読むのが遅いのに変わりなし。

I wanted to read something light and I picked up Harry Potter from my meager book shelf. I don't own many books so if it's not Harry Potter, then it would be The Game of Thrones, which would take me 4 months to read. Of course, it still took me a couple of weeks to read Harry Potter but it was stress-free reading.

I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the first time over more than a decade ago, right before I watched the first movie adaptation. I still remember vividly that the movie was exactly, exactly what I imagined while reading the book. Now that I have watched all the movies, it's really fun to read the book with visual aid of the characters and the setting from the movie in my head.

At my snail's pace of reading, by the time I get to the last book it will likely be half way through the year. Do I want to spend the next 6 months reading the books that I have already read before just because I finished the first book of the series, or should I take on another book?

Well, for now, I will have to move on to the Harry Potter book #2, since I got no other books to read and my library holding queue is completely filled with DVD reservations.