Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden

I read the first one cause I loved the premise and indeed dug the covers. There were things I liked but overall found it a waste of potential. I’ve always meant to continue the series, just never got around to it. Guess I don’t need to bother.

Insomnia, quite the mysterious feeling it tends to roll in waves for me too. Still figuring out why Hopefully, it’s not bothering you too much.

I try to learn and deal with it. Luckily, it doesn’t happen too often, usually just once or twice per month. In the past I would get more and more frustrated and agitated the longer I was awake, trying to force myself to sleep (which obviously only makes it harder to fall asleep). Nowadays when it happens I try to just accept it, I put on some relaxing music and read a bit.

“The Prisoner of Azkaban” is hands down my all-time favorite, both the book and the movie. It felt like Rowling turned a new fold in her writing it no longer felt completely like a children’s book but for all to read

Yeah, exactly! That’s why I love it as much as well. It’s also my favorite film of the series. Unlike Chris Columbus before him, Alfonso Cuarón really made the material his own.

With all the controversy surrounding Rowling, I sometimes forget that the novels did really bring me a lot of joy and comfort. Nice to be reminded of that thanks to conversations like these :)

Back in those I also didn’t have a 9 to 5 office job so my entire routine was quite different. But yeah as you get older you’ll value sleep more haha… I do sometimes suffer from insomnia, so those nights I do tend to read a lot to calm me down.

Teenage memories vividly include late night Harry Potter reading sessions. What’s your favorite book from the series?

Those nights were the best though! I do sometimes still miss them. Probably a toss up between Azkaban and Half-Blood Prince. How bout you?

In the past quite a few. When I was in my teens and twenties there were several occasions where I said to myself “okay, one more chapter” over and over again and read till deep into the night. Jurassic Park, It, The Stand, the Harry Potter books, to name a few.

Now that I’m in my forties I couldn’t even if I wanted to haha. At a certain point I just fall asleep no matter how captivating the novel is.