On Friday night, I will be attending a Potter Party with my father and daughter here. Isn’t that cool? You can criticize adult fans of Potter all you want, but the truth is, it’s a lot of fun, and none of them will be thinking about your whinging little snipes this time tomorrow. Let’s see anyone share that sort of multi-generational excitement about Ulysses.

I will most likely be incommunicado until I finish it, and I have decided to go ahead and list my status on the book as “currently reading” in my book queue — so in case you were wondering, no I didn’t sneak into Canada or swipe it from that kid in New York.

See you all on the other side — oh, and don’t forget, I’ll be discussing the book at my Harry Potter blog, which will probably be more frequently updated than this one — for a while, anyway.