HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAURUSHKA!
I hope that you are having an awesome birthday, and I'm glad that we made it home in time for me not to miss this important event! :-)
I will have several posts later, but as of right now, I'm only in the very middle of Book Six, and I absolutely must keep going. Heather and I received our books last night, of course, and I read to Chapter Six before finally trudging to bed, knowing that we had today's long road trip ahead of us. Heather only read the first chapter however (though she did read the second once she awoke this morning), and we couldn't read in the car. We had to go to several stores to find the book on CD this morning, but we finally did - we listened the entire trip home. Though Jim Dale's voice is enthralling, he does read quite a bit slower than I would silently to myself, so we just finished Chapter Fourteen (awesome chappy, by the way!) when we got home.
Must keep going! And, in case it's not already explicitly clear enough, I probably won't get back online until I'm finished! Happy reading, all! :-)