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Sunday, July 17, 2005

HP and the HBP

~"And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."~

Talk about reasons to smile. I hate to brag, but I read all 652 pages between 1am on Saturday morning and 5pm Sunday afternoon. Only stood in line for maybe 35 minutes. And I went to lab and floated down the river all day. [Yes, Kar, I need a lab as cool as yours where people pour wine out of plastic bottles and post-docs dump undergrads in the river.]....

Must read those gorgeous pages of HP again this week in order to absorb the full contents. But ooooh, 'tis better than gorging one's self on goldfish crackers or vanilla coke. Especially the ending. Real-time PCR had to wait. Same for my 9am presentation. (eek!). This was just too entertaining.

Word of warning: do NOT read this until after finishing. Unless you want to spoil the fun. Then again, book reviews always do.

(sigh) This was an amazing weekend. I haven't had this much fun with a new book in awhile. I'm still smiling at the thought of it. (Grins)

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