A recommendation from me one way or the other won’t make a difference in the box office, but I don’t mind weighing in on the latest Harry Potter pic.  I enjoyed it, but I enjoy all of the films.  They’re fun.  Not great.  Not especially memorable.  But, they are fun.

I read the books breathlessly when they came out.  They made me feel like the 11-or-so-year-old bookworm that I was eager to lose myself (and paradoxically invent myself) inside the pages.  Although the films don’t have the same power over me as the books, I do see the movies as a fun accompaniment that reminds me how much I enjoyed the books.

The first time I stayed up reading all night long to finish a book was when I was about 11, I think.  The book was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.  It was the first of many such all-nighters, though I can’t recall the last one!