Saw this idea on Katie ‘s blog so thought I’d check it out since I’m trying to waste time before we head to the water park.
I only researched it for about 2 minutes and only found a few “prompts” and decided on this one:
“What book could you read over and over?“
If you would have asked me this question a year ago I would have been clueless. I used to be a pretty avid reader when I was younger but tried to stay away from it because I can’t just read a few pages at a time. I have to get through it and find out what happens as quickly as possible, so long story short… I would lose a lot of sleep when I would read.
Anyway, last summer my cousins got me into the Twilight Saga and the Harry Potter series. Both of which I had sworn off beforehand. I couldn’t imagine myself getting interested in mystical, magical fiction. But I was wrong. There are 4 books in the Twilight Saga and 7 books in the Harry Potter series. I read all 11 within 1 month and then the Twilight books again before the 4th of July. Then I read the 2nd Twilight book, New Moon, for the 3rd time right before the movie came out in November.
I’m not sure that I can pinpoint an exact reason that these books are so appealing to such a wide audience, or even why they appeal to me. I just really enjoyed them. I guess Twilight because of the romantic side of it and Harry Potter for the suspense and creativity of it. In a life that is pretty routine as far as being a wife and mommy, it was nice to escape to absolutely unreal places. Both authors did an excellent job of painting vivid pictures and making the pages come to life. In my opinion, as with most books I believe, the books far exceed the movies.
The only negative thing I have to say about these books is I wish I had them on my Sony Reader 
My husband bought me the reader for Christmas after I had already purchased all 11 books, they weren’t exactly cheap when you buy them all at relatively the same time. I am tempted to splurge and buy them again anyway but I won’t …. for now anyway.
If you are a skeptic, I can tell you that I was too. I think a lot of my negative attitude toward it came from peers from my past that judged both as “satanic, of the devil”. Which in retrospect is a load of crap! It’s literature, good versus evil. Fiction is fiction. I’m actually excited for my kids to be able to read Harry Potter when they get a little older. It will be something that can bridge a generation gap between them and their aunts and uncles.
I went way over board on this “discussion” . :0)
isn’t that prompt thing cool?!