Minneapolis-St. Paul is a great spot for independent bookshops. Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis, and Next Chapter in St. Paul, are the biggest in each city, I think, but there are also specialty bookstores, like Once Upon a Crime, which only stocks crime fiction, and Birchbark Books, owned by Louise Erdrich, which sells a tightly-curated selection of books by Native authors and crafts by Native artists.

In the past year alone, I've read, as a parent, at least two school stories with extended sports matches (pages upon pages of blow-by-blow play), *A Prefect's Uncle* by Wodehouse, and *Tom Brown's Schooldays*, by Hughes. When I was a kid, I definitely read other children's books with that type of writing.

I was okay with the Quidditch chapters, when I read it as a child. I didn't love them enough to really understand how it became an IRL sport, though.

I love watching different movie adaptations of the same book, and seeing the various interpretations. I recently watched 4 movie adaptations of a classic novel, & there was very little overlap of scenes from the book. Each screenwriting team had brought a unique vision to their portrayal of the story, in some cases supplementing from the historical record behind the book, and other times making substitute scenes that summarize what had been a 10-page sequence.

I don't associate arrogance + toadyism with autism, no. Yikes, no.