361 more pages to do tomorrow.

No spoilers here, but it has been quite a ride so far.

In any case, I’m avoiding things like Digg and Slashdot till I’m done with the book, and I’m also avoiding mainstream news sites and television that wasn’t TiVoed before this week.

Kate is going to a Midnight launch party Friday night, so she’ll bring our copies (yes copies, you don’t expect one of use to wait for the other to finish do you?) of the book home after that and we can get started. Focused reading time will ensue. We’ll be letting the kids watch a lot more TV and play more video games than we normally would, we suspect, in an attempt to get through the book before we have to emerge into the real world on Monday. It should be pretty intense.

It’s been a long ride. I have to admit to being a little bit nervous about it ending. So many long series have disappointed me in the end, I just hope it doesn’t happen with this one.

Wow.

When does book 7 come out?

July 16th 2005, in Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

I figure Kate will be done with it by the 18th, so I’ll get a hold of it then.

Xander has fallen in love with Dr. Seuss books as of late. It started soon after we started playing The Cat in the Hat Game after Xander got it for Christmas. He loves that game.

The first time I read the The Cat in the hat to him after that, he thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world. Now i’m reading it to him every night, along with The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. He knows almost all the words to both of them now. He’ll even correct me when I read a sentence wrong.

God bless you Dr. Seuss. You’ve certainly blessed us.

This is easily one of the best books I’ve ever read. I can’t even imagine the amount of work that goes into writing a book like this.

I can’t even really talk about it for fear of giving something away. It’s a great mystery full of wonderful puzzles. Unlike a lot of books I’ve read of late, the ending is wonderful and satisfying.

I almost didn’t read it because so many people have said what a great book it is, and I usually fear that a book like that is just mass market trash. This isn’t though, it’s just amazing.

With a lot of luck, I’ll be able to finish it before the baby is born.

The new Harry Potter book is out. I went and picked up a copy today. I didn’t stand in line at midnight. I just walked into the store around 9:45am, picked one up off the stack and paid for it. Now, was that so hard?

Kate’s already working hard on it. I suspect I’ll get my chance Sunday or Monday

I know, Kate and I are in shock too. We’re both sad about this, as he was a great writer who gave us both lots of joy. I suspect it’ll be a while before we can listen to him read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on a car trip again.