I just finished reading Harry Potter after two days or more or less constant reading. J.K. Rowling does know how to write a page-turner… It was a good book and tied up all lose ends from the previous books, but I have to say that I still think the first book in the series are much, much better. The last books have been too much fantasy and wild imagination for my liking, but still one just has to know what’s going to happen.
From magic and witchcraft I’ve now started to read The Blair Years by Alastair Campbell. I know some of you out there think I’m totally nuts for doing it, but I find it interesting. I‘m not a Blairite and never will be (nor a Brownite), but Tony Blair is the first PM I remember probably. OK, we all remember Margaret Thatcher, but I was too young to understand what happened during those years. And John Major was just plain boring.
11 years is a long time and regardless of what people say Tony Blair has shaped Britain (in both good and bad ways) and to read his press secretary’s thoughts on what really went on is modern British history and a very interesting one.
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