Posted May 5, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
For a moment I am going to imagine myself in Harry’s place during his fourth year at Hogwarts. It would be a terrible disaster! Let me share with you just some of the ways I would likely have died during Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
1. The Quidditch World Cup
This could actually probably be two ways since there are at least two things here to kill me. The first would be the height of the top box. If you know me, you know I definitely don’t enjoy heights so that would have been… interesting. Then the Death Eaters would probably have gotten me. I don’t exactly run, ever. Yep, I would have been pretty easy to catch and then that would not have been pretty.
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Posted April 14, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by
J K Rowling Series: Harry Potter #3 Publisher: Scholastic (1999)
Paperback (435 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Also in this series: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books,
2016 Re-Reading,
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Harry Potter is lucky to reach the age of thirteen, since he has already survived the murderous attacks of the feared Dark Lord on more than one occasion. But his hopes for a quiet term concentrating on Quidditch are dashed when a maniacal mass-murderer escapes from Azkaban, pursued by the soul-sucking Dementors who guard the prison. It's assumed that Hogwarts is the safest place for Harry to be. But is it a coincidence that he can feel eyes watching him in the dark, and should he be taking Professor Trelawney's ghoulish predictions seriously?
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Posted April 7, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by
J K Rowling Series: Harry Potter #2 Publisher: Scholastic (1998)
Audiobook,
Paperback {9 hours and 24 minutes} (341 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Also in this series: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books,
2016 Re-Reading,
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All Harry Potter wants is to get away from the Dursleys and go back to Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby - who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.
And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.
But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone--or something--starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects... Harry Potter himself.
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Posted February 22, 2016 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by
J K Rowling Series: Harry Potter #1 Publisher: Scholastic,
Pottermore (1997)
Audiobook,
Paperback {8 hours and 33 minutes} (310 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Also in this series: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books,
2016 Re-Reading,
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Harry Potter has never played a sport while flying on a broomstick. He's never worn a cloak of invisibility, befriended a giant, or helped hatch a dragon. All Harry knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. Harry's room is a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in eleven years.
But all that is about change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to a wonderful place he never dreamed existed. There he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic around every corner, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him...if Harry can survive the encounter.
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Posted July 29, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
All Fall Down by
Ally Carter Series: Embassy Row #1 Publisher: Scholastic (2015)
Audiobook {8 hours and 33 minutes} (320 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: See How They Run Also in this series: See How They Run Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
This exciting new series from NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Ally Carter focuses on Grace, who can best be described as a daredevil, an Army brat, and a rebel. She is also the only granddaughter of perhaps the most powerful ambassador in the world, and Grace has spent every summer of her childhood running across the roofs of Embassy Row.
Now, at age sixteen, she’s come back to stay–in order to solve the mystery of her mother’s death. In the process, she uncovers an international conspiracy of unsettling proportions, and must choose her friends and watch her foes carefully if she and the world are to be saved.
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Tagged as 4 star, Library, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge
