Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 5 Stars I can’t believe I’m finished. Seven audiobooks in four months! Part of me is happy that I stopped reading the series when the movies came out because I don’t think I would have been a fan of the adaptations . And so we have Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or, JK Rowling Continues to Kill her Darlings. Again decade old spoilers for the book and movies. The WW2/ Nazi dictatorship similarities are strong in this one: muggle-born […]
Yer the Chosen One Harry
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: a book drastically different from the movie and my penultimate Harry Potter review for CBR9. Half Blood Prince is one of my least favorite movies in the series, despite all the balls it puts in motion, and even though I re-watched it in preparation of my reading I found myself zoning out in places. Maybe sloughing through 27 hours of (the audiobook) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix gave me a new appreciation for the zippy pacing of the comparatively short 17 hour HPB. Spoilers […]
Yer in the Army Now Harry!
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix or “Why sometimes, maybe, you should tell children things instead of just staying quiet and hoping they don’t get involved” Perhaps I’m listening to these too close together but I’ve got a few bones to pick. First of all, Wizarding community, have you ever heard of a Diet Coke? A healthy percentage of the Hogwarts population are either Muggle born or have one Muggle parent. Are you telling me, everyone got together and decided they were just going […]
Making Sure my Potter Journey is Complete
I’m about 2/3 of the way done with the audiobook of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix but I’m trying to make my Potter immersion 100% before the end of CBR9 so I’ve also added the novellas JK Rowling wrote like this and the Tales of Beedle the Bard (which I’ll hit closer to Deathly Hallows) to my TBR. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, cowritten by Ms. Rowling and Newt Scamander, is a brief encyclopedia of the magical creatures that inhabit the Wizarding world but hide from […]