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Tag Archives: Harry Potter
Rowling Speaks: “I wrote the final chapter in something like 1990, so I’ve known exactly how the series is going to end.”
I love this article. Someone may die in the final installment … a major character … and who knows, it could be Harry. Rowling isn’t saying. But I do just love how whenever this woman opens her mouth, it’s an … Continue reading
2005 Books Read
Here is the complete list of books I read in 2005. Underworld: A Novel, by Don DeLillo – which I had started in the fall of 2004- before I went to Ireland – and it took me FOREVER to finish … Continue reading
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Tagged American Sphinx, books read, Charming Billy, Children of the Arbat, Crowds and Power, Darkness at Noon, East of Eden, Edmund Burke, Harry Potter, L.M. Montgomery, Middlemarch, Miracle at Philadelphia, The Great Terror, The Pigman, Underworld, W.B. Yeats, Year of Magical Thinking
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Half-Blood Prince snapshots
SPOILERS BELOW. — Dumbledore. Wow. I did not see that coming. Well – not until they went into that horrible cave. Then I started thinking: “oh boy … something’s going to happen here …” — Horrible. That awful battle at … Continue reading
Announcement In Re: Harry Potter
I bought Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) on Wednesday. I am already halfway through. Cannot. Put. It. Down. More thoughts later. PLEASE NO SPOILERS. I know there’s something HUGE coming – I have heard mention of this … Continue reading
Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling
Out of the blue, during the climactic last scene, there’s some line that goes: “Harry reocgnized the old wizard who had killed the Prewetts.” I swear to God – I have no clue who the Prewetts are. Is it important? … Continue reading
Snapshots
— I got a new phone. Did you know that they make phones with CAMERAS IN THEM NOW???? hahaha I know I’m behind. I still listen to cassette tapes, for God’s sake. But I love my phone so much that … Continue reading
Order of the Phoenix snapshots
— I am already 3/4 of the way through, thanks to my hour-long commute out and back to Michele’s yesterday. I wish it wasn’t going by so fast!!! — Harry’s a moody bastard in this one, isn’t he? I guess … Continue reading
Goblet of Fire, Check!
I finished Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire this morning at 6:45 a.m. I took a moment to relish the experience. I had a moment of silence for poor dead Cedric. I sighed happily. Then I went to the … Continue reading
Discussing Goblet Of Fire: No Spoilers, Please
I beg of you all – who have read the Harry Potter books – to not give anything away. I beg you. I am now 3/4 of the way through Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. Again: no word … Continue reading
Yellow Brick Road
We all have ways of dealing with what is happening right now. I am devouring Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I had only read the first and second of the Harry Potter books, when they first came out … Continue reading