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Post by Lady B on Jul 27, 2007 20:34:57 GMT -5
Who needs Harry Potter when we have such interesting stuff to read right here at RTH? I think I am in serious withdrawal having finished the seventh book in the series the other day but now I have time to read back over the many interesting, informative, funny, helpful, and hopeful postings here at RTH. I also want to thank everyone who has been putting up with all my jabberings about the BEST EVER Contest. It's been my first chance to co-sponsor a contest and I might have gotten a bit carried away with all the excitement.  Now one final question... Why are you still here when you could be over in the Competition section voting for the best Newbie entries in Phase 2? ;D I think I just might start reading Harry all over again from Book 1 onward. Withdrawal from a fascinating read is rough on the imagination.  Lady B |
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jjckitti
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Post by jjckitti on Jul 29, 2007 19:38:29 GMT -5
Lady B I hear ya... I'm soooo all about reading them all over from book 1. After having read the last one it would be interesting to see it from a new stand point of having seen the end. Everything might seem different!! have fun and you have a great contest going!
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Post by Lady B on Jul 29, 2007 22:25:52 GMT -5
Chapter One. The Boy Who Lived. "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive,..." I am in for some very serious withdrawal when the BEST EVER Contest ends. I have plans for another contest or two; just have to come up with "worth-winning" prizes. Think any body would want a piece of a 2.5 million year old Venus Clam with dogtooth calcite crystal geode?    Pretty soon I'll have enough rocks accumulated to be able to give some really neat prizes. Until then... "...were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." Lady B |
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Post by jjckitti on Jul 30, 2007 18:20:56 GMT -5
LOL
that piece would make a great show piece.
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raqy
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Post by raqy on Jul 30, 2007 20:59:21 GMT -5
Very cool rocks, as for Harry I am reading The Half blood Prince at this time.
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agatemaggot
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Post by agatemaggot on Jul 30, 2007 22:12:15 GMT -5
Neat looking specimen, we have clams here in Iowa but NOTHING like that one. It must be fun hunting those !!!
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luv2hound
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I try & I try, but dang it! Those rocks just keep ending up in my pockets
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Post by luv2hound on Jul 30, 2007 23:00:34 GMT -5
That is an outstanding piece.Very worthy. Believe it or not I've not read any of the Harry Potter's.
~~Mitzi~~
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Post by Lady B on Jul 30, 2007 23:55:18 GMT -5
Yes, you have Mitzi. ;D The Quote around the photos of the Venus Clam is the first line in the first book. Now you can say you started reading the Harry Potter series; you just haven't finished it yet!  Lady B |
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Post by jjckitti on Jul 31, 2007 6:54:42 GMT -5
I recommend the books to anyone who likes the movies, because the books have sooo much more whit and fun than the movies can even begin to portray. enjoy
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onewomanarmy
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Post by onewomanarmy on Jul 31, 2007 9:48:26 GMT -5
That from Ruck's Pit LadyB?
Just finished Harry Potter last night - have been holding my breath for the last week hoping to not accidently hear the ending - just wasn't able to get started reading till this weekend! Glad I'm done now and it can't be spoiled but..now what? OH - back to rocks. How silly of me.
You're right Joi - you get so much more from the books - the imagery and the thought processes are such a big part of the story. Now I've got to somehow quit thinking in a British accent...funny how that happens...
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Post by Lady B on Jul 31, 2007 10:10:48 GMT -5
Yes, the piece of Venus clam with calcite is from Rucks' Pit. I'm going to take photos of the rest of the pieces I have and post them ASAP.
I remember waiting for the next "Nancy Drew" book to get published when I was just yea-big, but I don't think I ever got into a book-series as much as I have the Potter books. There certainly hasn't been anything like it in my adult years, even though I am an AVID reader and have many reading interests and favorite authors.
The imagery in the Potter series is so vivid and the characters are so real that I fully believe, were I to visit London, I would be able to step inside the Leaky cauldron and find the brickwork to Diagon Alley. And I'd love to have a cup of tea with Hagrid, but I would surely pass on his cakes. And even though I'm a Muggle, I think perhaps I might have made it into Hogwarts, just like Lily and Hermione.
Well, now I have 7 more wonderful books to treasure, right up there with some of my other favorites...Shakespeare's Combined Works; Anno's Animals; The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series; The Velveteen Rabbit; Edgar Allen Poe's Collected Works; Poems by Emily Dickenson; The Fall of Freddie the Leaf; Gemstones of the World...
Lady B
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Post by stefan on Jul 31, 2007 10:37:53 GMT -5
and Chaucer's Cantebury Tales (yup I read em twice- once in Elizabethian English and once in Middle English-- Not an easy task!!!)
Ooops sory this is about HP- well I have read every book at least 2x- and I'm probably gonna read DH outloud to my daughter- She loves to hear daddy read to her (strange child)
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Post by Lady B on Jul 31, 2007 12:43:20 GMT -5
"Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote," Yep, love C's CT, too. But I must confess...I always had a Dickens of a time plodding through Dickens' works, except for his famous Christmas Tale. It's wonderful that you read to your daughter, even if she is a strange child!  Lady B |
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Post by Tonyterner on Jul 31, 2007 13:27:04 GMT -5
I stopped midway through my second reading of The Order of the Phoenix to read the new one. I'm only part way through The Deathly Hollows so no one spoil it for me. Of course my six year old knows what happens because my wife told her. About every other day she says to me "Daddy, did you reach the part where......" and I scream out "NO! Don't tell me!". Stick with the books. As each movie comes out they get further and further from the story in the book. By the seventh movie I expect the characters names won't even be the same.
My favs to read are Hemmingway, Jane Austen and Dostoevsky.
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rockinmom
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Post by rockinmom on Aug 1, 2007 22:45:15 GMT -5
Ooooh I could use that Dogtooth! I LOVE it!!!! *drool* Tammy
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rockinmom
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Post by rockinmom on Aug 1, 2007 22:46:42 GMT -5
Oh yeah.. I haven't read the Harry Potter books yet but one day I'll get around to it! lol
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