“I literally couldn’t stop reading. I didn’t get up to eat breakfast. I didn’t take the dogs out. I just sat, curled up in my study chair, a glorious blue and gold Saturday morning blazing outside the window, and I read. I stopped a few times, forcing myself to go more slowly, wanting to savor the plot, but before long I was galloping along once more, flipping the pages in a blur …”
From a review of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows in Entertainment Weekly ew.com/ew/article/0,,20044270_20044274_20047649,00.html.
Comment:
So the critic “literally” didn’t stop, but actually did?
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Possibly vying for a personal meeting with J.K Rowling?
Comment by ggelliott — April 4, 2008 @ 5:23 pm |
Figuratively speaking, I literally did nothing but read this book. Perception is reality, I guess.
Malcolm
Comment by knightofswords — April 6, 2008 @ 2:36 pm |