So I read this book last year called “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, which was utterly brilliant, my favorite  book from last year and I believe it also won a Pulitzer.

I honestly don’t know how you can turn that book into a movie, but Hollywood thinks it can and they seem to have locked up who the lead actor will be in it: Viggo Mortensen, from Lord of the Rings.

Now he seems like the perfect guy for the father in this book, so that makes me a little more confident about the whole thing. Another McCarthy book was just turned into a movie called “All the Pretty Horses” which looks pretty interesting. I’d like to read that one as well.

Viggo has this to say about it all:

“There’s a book called ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy. They’re going to make a movie of that and the people making [it] have expressed interest [in me]. Visually, it’s going to be a very beautiful movie. It’s a very good story…It’s mainly about a father and a boy. It’s a post-apocalyptic scenario, a wasteland that they’re trying to get through and not be killed by the few remaining packs of marauding humans. They’re trying to get to the coast and find someplace safe and find people who are not crazy criminals or cannibals.”

So there you have it. If you haven’t read the book, I suggest you do. If you haven’t seen Viggo in Lord of the Rings, then ugh

No, that title isn’t meant to give anything away from the final chapter of J.K. Rowling’s amazing world she created. It’s just intended as a tearful wave goodbye to characters and a story I will miss.

The Deathy Hallows was…a brilliant conclusion. I had tears in my eyes a few times, which is so rare for me when I read that I don’t even know if a book as ever brought that out of me before. The book is long, but you don’t want it to end. The message endures throughout all these books: love and friendship and doing what is right and not what is easy. This book echoed all of that and then some. There are scary moments, nail-biting situations where my heart actually started beating faster and the rest of the world vanished. I was there alongside the characters.

And there are incredibly sad moments, and triumphant moments and everything is just ended so perfectly that I don’t see how could have ever concluded any different. The way Rowlings was able to weave a story like this is amazing. Things from previous books, as far back as the first or second, find their way here and make it evident she knew all along how this would go. It was a masterpiece in writing. Seven books that tell such a great story and never miss a beat, and even give you clues along the way to figuring it out on your own.

I will miss Harry Potter and his army of Dumbledore, and the Weasley’s and Hermoine and Ron…and even old Voldermort.

It was quite a journey.

The book came and now it’s time to remove myself from all the world (except for church tonight) and hide in my cave reading this big, freaking, long final chapter of Harry Potter. I cannot wait…what happens? Who dies? Is it good? It is bad? Will I sleep at all the next two days?

Who knows…but who cares!?!? The fun is about to start. This is what reading is all about for me. Finding that great book that you know you wont be able to put down, and sack it in for the long haul.

See you on the other side muggles!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix comes out today and I wish I could see it, but I’ve gotten roped into a group outing on Saturday, so I have to wait. It’s amazing how much I want to see a movie when I read the book and know what happens already.

And speaking of Harry Potter, I just pre-ordered the Deathly Hallows from Amazon.com today. I usually don’t pre-order things, but they have a guarantee to get it to you BY the 21st, the day is comes out. A nice deal. If you don’t get it, the book is free.

If you are a Harry Potter fan, visit Amazon to order it and have it on your doorstep, ready to be gobbled up by us nutty Potter fans.