Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix or “Why sometimes, maybe, you should tell children things instead of just staying quiet and hoping they don’t get involved” Perhaps I’m listening to these too close together but I’ve got a few bones to pick. First of all, Wizarding community, have you ever heard of a Diet Coke? A healthy percentage of the Hogwarts population are either Muggle born or have one Muggle parent. Are you telling me, everyone got together and decided they were just going […]
Boulders, Heartstrings, and thoughts on The Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale
*Note: This review was completed in 2017 before the author’s views towards our trans siblings began to be widely known. My reading experience was what it was and these reviews will remain up, but it should be noted that I find her TERF values abhorrent, which have only become more clear over time, and her doubling down in Summer 2020 has made the decision to walk away from her as a creative force the only acceptable choice for me. I will no longer be supporting […]
Making Sure my Potter Journey is Complete
I’m about 2/3 of the way done with the audiobook of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix but I’m trying to make my Potter immersion 100% before the end of CBR9 so I’ve also added the novellas JK Rowling wrote like this and the Tales of Beedle the Bard (which I’ll hit closer to Deathly Hallows) to my TBR. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, cowritten by Ms. Rowling and Newt Scamander, is a brief encyclopedia of the magical creatures that inhabit the Wizarding world but hide from […]
Harry Potter and Back to the Future II
This is kind of a bummer in general. I hadn’t planned on reading this, and even thought about reading it one day at Barnes and Noble and just sort of decided not to. Then, they had it available on Overdrive when I was sort of looking for something to take up some dinnertime reading. And now I have read it. It’s like a what-if comic book or one of the evil ream episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It’s not only not very good; […]
A delightful set of magical fairytales.
I have read one of Beedle the Bard’s now-famous Tales, “The Tale of the Three Brothers,” because it plays such an integral role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It’s such an exquisite, simple tale, that I wondered how the rest of the tales would fit in to make a volume. As it turns out, Rowling does her best when she is telling stories within stories. I highly recommend this particular collection. The Tales of Beedle the Bard is an anthology of folksy tales, […]
Lots of fabulous beasties to be found here!
Last fall, The Chancellor and I saw the first Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film in the new series, and we were underwhelmed. As much as I enjoyed the beasties, I didn’t find the story to be all that great or exciting. Plus, there were some troubling aspects that I thought were too mature for young kids and also possibly sneakily homophobic? Also, major ugh to Johnny Depp? On the bright side, Colin Farrell is positively a silver fox now, so enjoying that […]
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