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Harry Potter and the Curse of Expectation

February 5, 2017 by Zirza 1 Comment

I own twenty-one Harry Potter books: a set in Dutch, a set in English, and a set of e-books. This is excluding my copies of Quidditch through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I own three sets of Harry Potter related clothing and all eight films on DVD. I’ve gone to midnight screenings. I’ve braved my irrational yet powerful loathing of Eddie Redmayne and gone to see Fantastic Beasts. I used to moderate subsections of a thriving a Harry Potter internet […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Cursed Child, Harry Potter, Hogwarts, J.K. Rowling, JK Rowling, magic

Zirza's CBR9 Review No:4 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Cursed Child, Harry Potter, Hogwarts, J.K. Rowling, JK Rowling, magic ·
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One Fell Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest

February 2, 2017 by Mikki Blu 6 Comments

It’s been awhile since I’ve read a murder mystery (no kissing in this book!), but I’d been intrigued about these books by J.K. Rowling written under a pseudonym for awhile.  I’ve read all the Harry Potter books, and enjoyed them immensely, so I was curious to see how she would do with the real world.  Instead of wizards and magic we are presented with the death of a superstar model, a person who is regarded in society as being elevated above the rest of us […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: cbr9, Cormoran Strike Book #1, J.K. Rowling, mystery, Robert Galbraith

Mikki Blu's CBR9 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: cbr9, Cormoran Strike Book #1, J.K. Rowling, mystery, Robert Galbraith ·
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Yer a Wizard Harry!

January 29, 2017 by Caitlin_D 3 Comments

Excluding one or two books over the last three years I have been exclusively reading New-to-Me books since joining CBR. This year I wanted to reread some books I hadn’t read in a few years and while I really want to tackle some of the books from my high school English classes I started with Harry Potter. I am a huge fan of the movie series (despite owning all the dvds I will still drop everything if Freeform is running a marathon) but I have only […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling, JK Rowling

Caitlin_D's CBR9 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling, JK Rowling ·
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How did I not know of this series before now?

January 23, 2017 by postcardsandbooks 8 Comments

So this just happened. Again I feel like I need to start this review with a disclaimer: I am the worst book geek there ever was. I say that because I mainly just read when I’m living abroad. I don’t know why, but the fact of the matter is that from 2010 till 2015 I was reading perhaps less than 6 books a year. It was only last year that I moved back to Europe, and suddenly I’m joining bookclubs and reading 35 books in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime thriller, J.K. Rowling, JK Rowling, Robert Galbraith

postcardsandbooks's CBR9 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime thriller, J.K. Rowling, JK Rowling, Robert Galbraith ·
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I’ve Perhaps Gone Gif Crazy.

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling psuedonym), narrated by Robert Glenister

January 20, 2017 by faintingviolet 8 Comments

*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 […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: faintingviolet, feminism, J.K. Rowling, Robert Galbraith, Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling psuedonym), narrated by Robert Glenister, robert glenister

faintingviolet's CBR9 Review No:4 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: faintingviolet, feminism, J.K. Rowling, Robert Galbraith, Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling psuedonym), narrated by Robert Glenister, robert glenister ·
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See, *this* is what reading an actual Harry Potter script should feel like.

December 31, 2016 by narfna 2 Comments

K, first thing is this won’t be a real review. Don’t feel like being critical. Just feel like sharing lots of gifs (so warnings on two fronts: those of you who hate gifs, scram; also, small spoilers, prob, though nothing plot heavy). I saw Fantastic Beasts on opening weekend and had such a good time. Just a fun fantasy movie with cute animals and charming new characters. I hadn’t yet read Cursed Child, but in retrospect, this was everything that I wanted out of that […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: fantastic beasts and where to find them, fantasy, harry potter universe, J.K. Rowling, narfna, screenplays

narfna's CBR8 Review No:166 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: fantastic beasts and where to find them, fantasy, harry potter universe, J.K. Rowling, narfna, screenplays ·
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