After a few years off we return to Harry Potter. We start off with a bit of catch-up to jog our memories on what happened in the last book, and then we learn that one of us has a lot of faith in the Ministry of Magic. This book (mild spoiler alert) is going to rock him to the core, I can already tell.

And that's a wrap on Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief!

I have a feeling this kid's ability to rattle off lines of prophecy from memory after hearing them only once is going to come in handy in some of the future books we read together...

In which we devise better battle strategies than the God of War and a demigod.

Have you ever been right in the thick of an exciting chapter only to have a stranger knock on your door to let you know your backyard chickens have escaped and are roaming the neighborhood? Well, now we have!

We read this chapter on Christmas Day, so one of us was still riding that Christmas high!

What would you do if you had infinity dollars? Well, you could buy something that cost $350, for starters...

Wait, are you telling me you don't know the difference between an antelope and a Thompson's gazelle? *scandalized*

I always like the stories where brains defeat brawn. 

When you end up reading four chapters in one sitting at bedtime, you get a little loopy by the time you get to that last chapter.