LOVE Rowling

Rowling just can do no wrong when it comes to writing under her own name. VERY GOOD LIVES is the  commencement speech she gave at the Harvard Graduation in, I think, 2008. If you've heard it, watched it, or read it, you already know how very inspiring she is. It is her humility and understanding of REAL LIFE that makes her one of the greatest writers of the 21st Century, not just the fact that she has written THE GREATEST series of the 21st century. I love that she knows and understands that failing is not failure, but an opportunity to learn--for growth--and for knowing what Rock Bottom is truly like. We as a culture get so caught up in wanting, no--NEEDING to be successful at everything we do, the first time we do it that we cower in fear of ever doing anything at all. But when you're at Rock Bottom and you have nothing left to lose because the only direction possible is up, the choice of moving forward is [finally] easier.

I'd watched Rowling's speech on youtube back when it was first available, so I was very aware of the incredibleness of her physical presence. As a reader, though, I also like being able to come back to her speech in its very black and whiteness to "hear" her voice again and again and again. Reading it makes it more real for me and helps me remember it better than just listening to it.

All I have to say is that I may not read Rowling's novels that she writes under pen names (or I may), but I am pretty positive that I will always read whatever is in print under her name J. K. Rowling. 

LOVE.