re: #237 Snarknado!

A friend of mine who was teaching middle school at the time the Harry Potter books came out said the same thing about them (I was mentioning that I never understood why they were so celebrated, since there’s so much good fantasy around.)

I remember the Harry Porter phenomenon quite well actually. TP probably remembers this as a fellow student of Virginia’s public schools but every summer before school started, we had to read a book and I just remeber seventh grade a bunch of kids had chosen this new book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. I never read any of the books honestly. Fantasy as a genre just isn’t for me. I ended up being one of the few if any kids to do a book report on All Quiet on the Western Front.