Somehow I got it into my head that The Road was 261 pages long and when I hit page 241 and tried to turn the page I discovered I was done. That has never happened to me before. Adam had gone to bed and I had stayed up to finish it because I knew Harry Potter was coming in the morning. Although The Road is now an Oprah’s Book Club pick and a Pulitzer Prize winner that is NOT why I read it I had heard of it before. Harry Potter aside I am not one to pick a book just because it is popular I pick most of my reads around what my friends are reading, by general interest, suggestions and reading reviews in newspapers and magazines.

When my book arrived I was still in bed, I did not expect it to arrive so early it was only 8:25am. I literally flew out of bed, forgetting my glasses but managed to throw my sandals on, ran to the buzzer and then sprinted down the stairs. It was mine at last, all 607 pages of it. I went about setting up my reading space.

1. take your medication - check

2. water - check

3. coffee - check

4. text message Aughra to let her know I have my copy - check

5. update status on messenger to read: FULL MEDIA BLACKOUT - until i am done Harry Potter - check

6. change Facebook status to similar - check

7. put up drafted blog post - check

8. say goodbye to the internet, anything but the Golf Channel [and even THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT HP!] and the outside world - check

When I opened the book to start reading I could NOT have been more surprised to see that one of the two quotes or passages whatever you want to call them, the second one to be exact, that J.K. Rowling was using as a precursor to chapter one was by none other than my blood relative on my fathers side William Penn. I had a serious trip out.

Over the course of my reading weekend Adam was awesome, he did some of my chores, he was very quiet, I think he spent a lot of time on Facebook, he filtered the email and he kept my coffee and water flowing, he fed me as well. He went out and rented Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window , I took a break and watched it with him. He also left the apartment for periods longer than a half hour at least three times leaving me in complete silence.

I finished it last night and it really hasn’t all sunk in yet, I read it so fast I am still digesting it all. It is sort of hard to believe it is over but I don’t feel sad because if you take out all of the over explaining/describing and repetitiveness the same series likely could have been written just as well in five books. As mentioned previously, not being a huge fan of reading books that belong to a series, to be honest I’m glad it is finally over. I did love it though, the whole ride and the complete and utter craziness of the entire phenomenon, I am really glad that it tuned out to be worth every minute and that all of my books were printed on 100% ancient-forest-free paper which is also 100% post consumer recycled and processed chlorine free.

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