Exploring My Bookshelves #4 -A Book I Wasn't Sure About + Unboxing

Exploring My Bookshelves #3

A Book I Wasn't Sure About

created by Victoria @ Addlepate and Book Nerds

co-hosted by Shannon @ For the Love of Words

The meme: Every Friday, participants share a photo of their

bookshelves and post on a specific topic or question about them.

Granted, there are a lot of books that I wasn't sure about. (Honorable mention here to Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz; a book about a guy who can see ghosts, because that makes perfect sense for a girl who gets the heebie jeebies from the tamest of ghost stories. But I love it!)

However the book that takes the cake is this one.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (check out my review!)

Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy. He lives with his Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia and cousin Dudley, who are mean to him and make him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. (Dudley, however, has two bedrooms, one to sleep in and one for all his toys and games.) Then Harry starts receiving mysterious letters and his life is changed forever. He is whisked away by a beetle-eyed giant of a man and enrolled at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The reason: Harry Potter is a wizard! The first book in the "Harry Potter" series makes the perfect introduction to the world of Hogwarts. -via Goodreads

For years I've avoided reading it and assumed it overhyped. In the end, I only deigned to read it because a.) as a book blogger and booktuber, I figured I ought to at least give a try to the series so many other book bloggers and booktubers gush about and to which so many other books are compared and b.) as a writer, I wanted to see for myself this book that so drastically and fantastically changed the landscape in MG and YA publishing and heralded in a new Golden Age for these areas.

In the end, I fell in love with them. In fact, that book I'm holding is my very own, brand new copy, because I just bought the boxed set, baby!

Witness the Glorious Unboxing!!!
 

So yeah, that makes this another Harry Potter Month post. ;)