Book Club Friday

Hi everyone, I thought I'd join in with Heather again this week for Book Club Friday. I'm still reading Harry Potter, and loving it!  I finished the third book last week and we watched the 3rd movie - The Prisoner of Azkaban, last weekend too. It was a little more scary for Kristen, poor thing didn't even want to go to the bathroom on her own after she'd watched it. Not sure she'll want to watch any more after this one until she's a bit older? 

So, this week I'm reading book #4 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.It's over 700 PAGES!!!!

 Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. But unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding standards. And in his case, different can be deadly.

700 pages? Wow, I can't remember when I read such a long book!  This one is a little more slow going for me, not that it's not good, it's just that I'm not getting much time to read this week except for half an hour at bedtime. I want to read through it quickly, so I can watch the movie too, but it might take me a couple of weeks at this rate. Still, I'm enjoying them. I feel like I can't even think about reading any other kind of fiction til I get all these books finished with? But who knows, I may take a break and read others in between.

This week has gone really quick. Kristen seems to be having a good first week at school. She brings homework home for the first time today, and they have until next Friday to complete it. I'm curious to know what kind of homework she gets as a 5th grader. Homework in the past has always seemed pretty simple and basic, it hardly seems worth doing at all!

I'm going to try and make a PW recipe this weekend too, and I think I might try to start sharing them on Monday morning. I figure the weekend is a good time to make them, because if we can't manage to eat them all (or don't want to eat them all because of the calorie content!, we can always share it with the neighbors) ;-) Still leaning towards the scones, but I need cream and maple extract in first. 

Have a great weekend. I'll be back Monday.