Ilene wrote:

     "Any of you-all read any of the new Harry Potter books?  I might feel
     silly buying them for myself, but I am curious."

     I read the first one last Christmas three times (feeling like an
     idiot, of course).  Harry is a cool kid--very 11-year-old, in spite of
     the sorcerer stuff, some of the details are really neat, like the
     every flavor jelly beans (he really means EVERY flavor), his truly
     icky non-sorcerer relatives.  And I'm a sucker for those "plucky young
     hero defends the world against the forces of evil" books anyhow (the
     brain obviously still thinks it's ten, although the rest of the body
     is all too clear that that is not the case).

     Haven't read either of the other two--only in hard back with waiting
     lists a mile long.  Would gladly do so if one drifted by.

     Marilyn