Alice writes that her father isn't an overly affectionate man, and the only time they cuddled up was on those nights on his bed, her head resting on his chest as he read a chapter or two aloud. It isn't so much a story about the books, but about the space that books give father and daughter. He didn't really like the series – he thought it wasn't particularly literary."Īll of this is revealed in Alice's "embarrassingly mushy" memoir, The Reading Promise. "We probably read Harry Potter for something like three and a half years.
"Every time a new book came out, we would read all the books leading up to it so we would be ready," says Alice. One unexpected result was that they re-read the Harry Potter books many times.
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