It's November 2023. It's hard to imagine that I have been reading the Harry Potter books for over 20 years. . . and I am still rereading them. They are like an old friend, familiar, interesting, funny, still suspenseful. They are a place I go when the real world is frustrating or overwhelming or sometimes just too sad.
I have nothing else to add right now. I've been rereading the seven books this year. I usually fit one in after reading a novel about World War II. I like historical novels, but in the past I usually chose the ones set in the 19th century or in English history, It seems that it's past time for me to learn more about the history that my parents lived as teens and young adults, that time between World War I and the end of the 1940s when I was born. But it's sometimes a very scary and difficult history to read about so I turn to my old friends in Harry Potter, knowing there is comfort and safety in those stories.
Pat
