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 […]
How did I not know of this series before now?
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 […]
I’ve Perhaps Gone Gif Crazy.
OVERALL THOUGHTS 4.5 rounded up to 5 stars, because this book deserves a higher ranking than its predecessor. I had thought the world of Rowling’s writing was done for me. And then. AND THEN. This series showed up in my life and I have the gift of her back. Here she is writing intricate but not unsolvable mysteries where the clues are right there in front of you, and if you are anything like me only make sense to you after the big reveal. No […]
See, *this* is what reading an actual Harry Potter script should feel like.
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 […]