Harry Potter Movies

Today and yesterday have been another of my favorite days on tv.  The Harry Potter movies have been airing on a channel called Freeform.  It was only about three weekends ago that they aired them over the weekend, so to have them on again so soon was a surprise.

I didn't get into reading the books or even watching the movies until late in the series, and then it started with my son, he was falling behind in reading and he mentioned wanting to read the Harry Potter series, and this was probably only about seven years ago. So I checked out the first book of the series and I started reading it aloud to my son every night before bed.  This lead to reading the whole series together aloud.

A couple years later my daughters were old enough to want to hear the books and so I started the series over and read it aloud to the girls every night before bed.  Of course, over the time that it took me to read the series aloud to the kids every night, we ended up watching the movies up to that point on tv. Well, once I saw the movies, I was like, wait....there was this and that, and this that occurred in the book that was completely cut from the movie, so I had to go back and read the books again another time for myself.

Since then, I love watching the movies, but they always spark a desire in me to read the books again once I have seen the movies because I know there is so much that had to be cut from the books to make the movies short enough to air. I love going back and reading the books and getting the small nuisances and undercurrents that are going on in the book that you miss completely in the movie.

My only complaint about the movies on tv, especially this Freeform channel that tends to reair them repeatedly is that they skip Order of the Phoenix all the time. It drives me crazy, that is probably my favorite book, and they skip it! Ugh!

Well, not that the Deathly Hallows part II is almost over it looks like I need to head to the library again and get the books and reread the series! Sound like the perfect weekend!

Books and Music

For the longest time now I have been reading and reviewing books. I love doing that and so I created my first blog just for that purpose. Then of course things got in the way and it became a mash, so last year I moved the book reviews to the new blog that it ONLY book reviews. I am loving it.

TAMMommy Blogs on Books

Of course just having my book blog wasn't enough, I needed a place to vent, to talk, to release my emotions and frustrations and so this little blog became my second blog to allow me to do that. I don't link this blog anywhere so most people don't know about it, it's just floating out there where I know I can write and feel better.

Lately I have really been wanting to venture out into talking about music, kinda like I do about books. I love music and there are a number of songs out there that have great messages that people just need to slow down, shut up and listen to. So the other day I went for it. I created a third blog for music. I only have one post there, but it is a great song, and I look forward to doing more.

TAMMommy Blogs on Music

Is it important? Probably not, will anyone read it? I hope so. Bu I know I wrote it and I hope that it gets out there to someone. Just like my book reviews, I just put them out there and hope they touch one person that makes a difference. That's all I can ask for in life. Right?!

Now, back to the job at hand....

TAMM