Posted in Misc., tagged Shakespeare on October 31, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I had this idea because of a weird dream I had. This project is for after I finish reading the Harry Potter books – which I’m taking longer to do than I anticipated, because I’m enjoying it so much and I want to make it last.
My next reading project – which will run parallel to [...]
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Posted in 3 Stars, Favored authors, Heard about in a book, Reread, tagged fantasy, for young people, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling, orphans on October 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Holy God, this book is scary. I had completely forgotten how terrifying the scene in the graveyard is. Damn.
Goblet of Fire isn’t as unfavoritey to me as I remembered it being. I don’t know why I was so cranky about it. I mean, apart from the Blast-Ended Skrewts, which were a [...]
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Posted in 5 Stars, Favored authors, Reread, tagged best books ever, fantasy, for young people, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling, orphans on October 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mm, this is the one I’ve been waiting for. My original plan was just to read Prisoner of Azkaban, my most favorite of all the Harry Potter books, but then I decided to read them all, since I knew that would take longer and afford me more lasting satisfaction. In Azkaban, a supporter [...]
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Posted in Misc. on October 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Of course my camera isn’t working. I mean, that makes total sense. Of course right this very day on which I got my cool new commonplace book from Ella at Box of Books, of course that would be the day my camera would choose to not work. It won’t save any pictures I take! So [...]
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You know, if nostalgia was going to cloud my judgment, you’d think I’d like Chamber of Secrets better than I do. It was the first of the Harry Potter books that I bought myself. I remember it really vividly – the Books-a-Million was still open then, and I was young enough that it was [...]
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Posted in 4 Stars, Favored authors, Heard about from a person, tagged fantasy, for young people, Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling, judging a book by its cover, orphans on October 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I decided to read these books all over again. The length of my workdays, and the fact that today I was working at one place or another from six-forty in the morning until nine at night, has put the kibosh on any adventurous reading I might feel like doing. I returned all my library books [...]
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Sheesh, I read this right after Fighting Ruben Wolfe and then completely forgot to review this. It’s because so many new things are happening. I’m not just making an excuse. There are a lot of things going on in my life at the moment. For instance:
1. New job
2. New commitment to regular writing schedule
3. New [...]
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The addiction continues. This one’s about a school shooting. Only one silly thing happens, and it’s not all that silly. Definitely not as silly as poisoning the Louisiana priest with antifreeze in his cocoa.
…I can’t do this. I don’t have the heart to continue reviewing this. I’m too depressed. I’m about to go directly into [...]
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Sigh.
I know she’s better than this. Ms. Picoult is an excellent writer. She does good dialogue, her characters are generally consistent, the little kids are really good little kids. In each case where I have begun reading a book of hers, I have stayed up way past my bedtime finishing it. (In the case of [...]
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I read this because I bought Getting the Girl, and then it turned out that Getting the Girl was a sequel to Fighting Ruben Wolfe. I haven’t liked reading things out of order since I was a young lass reading Patricia C. Wrede’s Dragons books. I read Talking to Dragons first and found it totally [...]
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