4, 224 pages. 3 years, 3 months. And we’re done. If you’ve read my last Harry Potter review, you know that I’ve been reading the series aloud to my daughter. I decided when she was born to wait to read them until she was 8, and then we’d read them together. We started them the summer after she turned 8. We finished last night. She’s 11. Today was her first day of middle school. It would be absolutely impossible to write a review that would […]
Is your legacy a blessing or a curse? J.K. Rowling explores the question.
When J.K. Rowling announced that she’d be writing a play about Harry Potter, we all knew she wouldn’t be done with Harry Potter. Several people began plotting ways to get to London to see the play’s premiere. There was controversy that the actress who played adult Hermione was black. The horror, you guys. How DARE black women live in England?????? [For real, though, that was incredibly stupid. I think I need to reimagine Hermione as black in my re-read instead of picturing her as Emma […]
There’s almost no way this book could have succeeded. But it mostly does.
I won’t recount all the ways I love the Harry Potter books, but I will say that after having read this, I want to go back and read the series again. Barely a month after finishing it for probably the fifth time. My love for this world, and these characters, is indelible. Needless to say, I highly anticipated Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Don’t mistake my delayed review as lack of enjoyment or diminished excitement – I did everything I could to savor these pages. […]
If your second best series is better than everyone else’s first, you’re doing something right.
JK Rowling’s writing has improved noticeably from the first Harry Potter books. I haven’t read The Casual Vacancy yet, both because the story doesn’t appeal to me and it’s received a generally lukewarm reception, so it came as a bit of a shock to see her writing about sex and characters who use foul language. It’s almost like hearing my mother use those words. But, once you get passed that (assuming that, like me, that’s something you even have to get passed), this is a […]
4,100 pages of perpetual youth.
I read these books last month, but wanted to save them to celebrate my Cannonball. When I was a teenager, I thought I read a lot. But I don’t think I ever read 40 books in a year before. Last year, reading mostly historical biographies, I only made it to 29 (my goal was 12, though). So I didn’t expect to really be able to make it this year. So I’m pleasantly surprised that I was able to make it in approximately six months. So, […]
Do you know the way through this labyrinth? No, I’m just a worm.
Considering how long it took me to finally read the first novel in the Cormoran Strike series, The Cuckoo’s Calling, I am attempting to make up for lost time by pretty much inhaling the next two books. The action starts a few months after the events of The Cuckoo’s Calling, and, due to all the publicity received, Strike is working steadily. Between digging up scandals for a tabloid reporter, tailing suspected cheaters, and basically doing bitch work for rich people, Strike gets a visit from […]
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