As soon as I heard the new Harry Potter book is coming out, I put my name on the hold list for the Multnomah County Library. There are already 166 people on the list! I don’t feel too guilty about taking the book from someone who can’t afford it, or from a kid, because if it’s like the last book I’ll pick it up when the library opens on Saturday morning at 10AM and then keep reading until I finish it. Last time that was sometime in the wee hours of Sunday. The book went back on Sunday morning and the next person got it.

So, as some people are reading political treatises and academic poetry, I’ll be reading a kid’s book. Someone pass the “Lemony Snicket.”