You guys, I loved this book. Like, a stupid amount. I loved this book so much it gave me the warm fuzzies. I loved it so much I wanted to be a teen again, and NO THANKS to that. I loved it so much I saved reading it for bad days despite wanting to eat it in one go like a cupcake. I loved, loved, loved this book like I was Roger Ebert’s evil twin reviewing the movie North. What I’m saying is this is […]
Could somebody please give Harry a hug? Like, that boy’s been through a lot…
I am book hungover which pretty much tells you all you need to know. It’s been 2 weeks since I finished and I’ve been unable to get into anything since then. The first books are good, they are satisfying like a puzzle. I did not start becoming really excited until book four. Then it was just me, not doing anything else for 3 days. I went out to lunch with a friend and all I could think about was getting back to find out whether […]
Love is the Engine Which Drives Our Heroes
I’ve been sitting on this review for several days, trying to let the experience of rereading The Half-Blood Prince settle in my mind so I could look at it from a larger angle. The plot of the story is crucial; it shows how the war could so easily fall to the side of Voldemort, and sets up the game plan for defeating him. But it isn’t the only crucial aspect of the narrative, this is also a story of being on the cusp of adulthood, […]
An interesting theological study of Harry Potter
I’ve been a fan of the Harry Potter books since I was a freshman in college (it’s amazing how going to college opened up my world in so many ways). I like to read and engage with the books at theoretical levels, and when I was taking an independent study, I encountered John Granger’s critical work on the novels. He writes from the perspective of a Christian academic who was at first skeptical of the novels and then became a fan after engaging with them […]