Daniel Shellenbarger > Recent Status Updates

curses! once again flummoxed by the 5-item per month limit on the library's hoopla access: three weeks until I can get back to Chihaya and company...

"Now she was old enough to vote, and this was very old for a submarine" how times change... the Los Angeles class subs still in service are all in their 30's and some of the Ohio class are over 40 and some might get to 50 before finally being replaced.

the fact that Clancy named the officious political officer Putin becomes funnier by the year, particularly since Czar Vladimir Putin I was a complete nobody back then.

I have to HALF retract what I said, thus far at least, Clancy never refers to any of the Royals by name, even if it is extremely obvious who he's talking about

Let this book be a lesson to all authors: NEVER USE LIVING REAL LIFE PEOPLE IN YOUR STORY. It just gets awkward when they get in messy divorces later. Tainted royals aside, I'm looking forward to reading this as, oh boy, i barely remember this one (apart from desperately trying to focus on it while the couple I was sitting beside on the flight back from Cali were aggressively flirting with each other).

"and because Lupin remembered to drink his potion, although it was a bit annoying that he turned into a wolf, they still wrangled Peter up to the castle where he paid for his crimes. Without any ally to help him, Voldemort never did recover, but withered away in the forests of Albania until he was nothing but a dark undying mindless vapor, and Harry's life was surprisingly if pleasantly dull from then on, the end."

the downside of getting stuff off of hoopla is that the library subscription is only for 5 items a month, so my Chihayafuru binge will have to go on hiatus for a couple weeks.

don't know if I'm going to do a whole series reread (after all, I didn't actually finish rereading it last year), but with Halloween coming on, felt like reading book 1 again