The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is my next stop on the great Re-Read. For a while this book was everything to me. I had never read anything that was so beautiful and painful and perfect in my life. … Continue reading
The final book in such an epic series always had such a lot of hype to live up to. I read it on the day it was published in two sittings and I had not read it since. Until now. … Continue reading
It was my birthday at the weekend and my present was a trip to the Harry Potter Studios. As you may have read I’ve been a huge Harry Potter fan and I’ve been revisiting all of the books it has … Continue reading
I can’t quite believe I’m here. About to embark on the final one Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This one I have only read once because after finishing it I didn’t feel the need to read it again until … Continue reading
I always felt smug about this book, mainly because I worked out who the Half-Blood Prince was prior to it being published. I also guessed that Dumbledore would not make it to the final book. Although that was rather more obvious. This is a wild ride of a book, I loved all the sequences between Harry and Dumbledore. Dumbledore diminishing, though having learnt important lessons in the Order of the Phoenix. Also Snape you can’t talk about this book without thinking deeply about Snape stuck between a rock and a hard place and with no choice to his actions. And the questions about who is he actually loyal to?
And then there’s Draco, in well over his head and feeling every inch the frightened child that he is. I adore Dumbledore in the sequence, when facing down someone who charged with killing him, he tries to reason with him and even this darkest of moments he offers Draco a way out.
I cried at Dumbledore’s funeral I couldn’t help it. The huge protective presence in the novels is gone as it needs to be for Harry to realise his true potential and defeat Voldemort.
So my five things:
The half-blood Prince is one I’ve only read twice. There are a lot of explanations in this book. We get to learn what Dumbledore has been thinking and some of what he has been planning. I’m looking forward to Horace … Continue reading
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It was with no small amount of trepidation that I approached this one. Because dear me CAPSLOCK!Harry really is a sulky pain in the you-know-where. That said my memory did lie to … Continue reading
I can remember finishing Goblet and being aghast and wanting to read the sequel immediately. We had to wait the best part of two years before we got it. And then it was weird. Harry was not the Harry I … Continue reading
Goblet of Fire is such a long book after Prisoner of Azkaban. It’s like a Peter Jackson adapted Hobbit version of the earlier Harry Potter books. I am torn because whilst I love all the detail of the world, some … Continue reading
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