With a friend like Harry

I didn't think it would be so difficult to pop in to a bookstore and pick up a copy of the new Harry Potter book. I was so wrong. By the time I arrived at a gigantic Barnes and Nobel early on Saturday afternoon they were sold out. After further investigation I found out that the books had sold out about an hour after they went on sale. I missed the sell-out window by at least 12 hours.

The story was the same at a couple of other places I went to over the weekend. It was a good weekend for running errands in Boston. That's the polite translation for "it's raining so hard we might want to build an arc". So - I did what any self-respecting, urban woman would do. I decided to spend my few "disposable" dollars at the MAC counter. I'm as happy as a little girl dressed up like a wizard.

Why Harry?
I thought it was a good way to get my niece and nephew into reading. I wanted to encourage them. So I read the books over the course of like - 3 weeks - sometime before the first movie came out. I thought we could see the movie together and then read the books and talk about them. I was trying to be the hip auntie.

Turns out that small children in my family aren't really interested in reading books about wizards. They are more interested in watching cartoons - the Powerpuff girls, which are cool - and in their Gameboy. So - my big plan didn't really work. But the books are a quick read and now they children are getting more interested in the books and seem less intimidated by them. I figured I'd give it a shot. Looks like I'll be waiting another week for Amazon to deliver my HP book.

Until then - I can console myself with really glossy lipsticks and shiny mascara.

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