Back to Harry's Fourth Year

Yep, I'm reading faster now I'm done with Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner in 3 days. Not that I have full days doing nothing but read, I just got faster (well, my son Kurt still beats me to 700-pagers).

I'm now back to the almost half unread Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I promised myself I'll be done with it before the week ends so I can see the movie with the kids.

Call me a late bloomer on Harry Potter fandom but the series brought me to a world that you'd think only a child can appreciate. But leafing through the pages I'm a child again--book after book--it's not the magic and charms that hooked me, it's the obvious simplicity, the exciting rhythm of scenes, words, characters, and conflicts--and ultimately its theme being of death.

The father in me is actually telling me--to appreciate what makes your kids smile, see it through the kid in you. And on I read...