Re: [LM_NET] Harry Potter fun (no spoiler)

[David Bilmes <dudu4tigers@SNET.NET>]

I still have nearly 300 pages to go, but thought I'd take a break just to comment 
on how wonderful it is to have so many people excited over a book.

I was at an outdoor concert Saturday night, and a middle-school age boy near me was 
reading the book. When he got up to get something to eat, his mother took the book 
and started reading it!

Then I took a train into New York City on Sunday, and saw several people on the 
train with copies of the book, and a man brought a copy of it into the restaurant 
where I ate lunch.

By the way, I went to my local supermarket at 9 a.m. Saturday morning and purchased 
one of the many copies they had for sale. But I did hear a report on NPR this 
morning about how 1,400 people waited in line for their books Friday night at a 
bookstore in Bethesda, MD.

Well, time to go back to the book!


David Bilmes, LMS 
Schaghticoke Middle School 
New Milford, CT 
bilmesd@new-milford.k12.ct.us 
dudu4tigers@snet.net 
www.new-milford.k12.ct.us/SMS/LMC 
 
“You can’t teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or 
declines to let you do.” 
 
—Kurt Vonnegut

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