In A Harry Potter State Of Mind

Lately, I've been reading a lot. This is no real surprise for me, as I've always enjoyed reading for pleasure. What might be surprising to some is that, lately, I've been reading Harry Potter. See, I've seen all the movies (I had seen Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban all already, but my little brother got all four for Christmas, so I was able to watch Goblet of Fire) already, but that got me interested in checking out the books. I started simply by going and getting paperback copies of Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince. I read those, and...wow. I have to say, I was impressed. They're "children's" books, but they're incredibly well-written. I had to go back and get the first four and read them (I decided to get all of them in the hardcover version, since the two paperbacks are bent like crazy now). They're even better than the movies, what with all the added detail you miss in the movie.

So I went back and got all the books in hardcover, and I've read them all (Including the last two again). And now, I'm considering going back and reading them yet again. They're just really enthralling books.

I think I might wait on starting them over again, though. I need to go get Ted Dekker's new book, Skin, still. In fact, after I'm done watching Monday night's episode of 24 again, I think I might have to go out and get that one...