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Accio Cannonball

Harry Potter Books 1-7 by JK Rowling

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Cannonball! Reading the Harry Potter series this time felt different than past times. I’m several years older than I was last time I read them, and this time I was reading them not just for fun, but to review for CBR (it makes a difference, I’ve found. . .). It’s also a time in American history when reading about the fight against the Death Eaters and their focus on purebloods is a little more uncomfortable than it has been in the past (I am not the only person seeing similarities between Voldemort’s grandiosity, vanity, and short-sightedness and a certain someone […]

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12/7/2017 's CBR9 Review No:57 |

Second time through, the characters make this just as good.

The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) by Robert Galbraith

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The thing about entirely plot-based books is that they don’t usually make for good re-reads, and I am a TOTAL book re-reader. “Do I want to re-read this someday?” is genuinely a question I ask before I will elevate a book to the four star level. If the answer is no, then there better be some damn fine extenuating circumstances as to why not (for instance a book that’s really good, but so traumatizing and upsetting that you can’t read it more than once). Mysteries sometimes can’t be re-read, because you already know what happened (unless you forgot, in which case, congratulations, […]

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8/22/2017 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

Yer the Savior, Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows & The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling Performed by Jim Dale

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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 registries, persecuted people going in to hiding, loyalists to the regime being put into positions […]

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5/28/2017 's CBR9 Review No:59 |

Yer the Chosen One Harry

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling Performed by Jim Dale

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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 abound because I’m pretty sure everyone knows the plot from the books, movies or both… […]

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5/13/2017 's CBR9 Review No:53 |

Yer in the Army Now Harry!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling Performed by Jim Dale

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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 to drink pumpkin juice from now on? Also, where the hell are Hermione’s parents? She spends […]

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4/28/2017 's CBR9 Review No:48 |

Making Sure my Potter Journey is Complete

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander, Albus Dumbledore and JK Rowling

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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 Muggle eyes. This is Harry’s copy of the text book so it is has a […]

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4/20/2017 's CBR9 Review No:43 |

Harry Potter and Back to the Future II

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany

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This is kind of a bummer in general. I hadn’t planned on reading this, and even thought about reading it one day at Barnes and Noble and just sort of decided not to. Then, they had it available on Overdrive when I was sort of looking for something to take up some dinnertime reading. And now I have read it. It’s like a what-if comic book or one of the evil ream episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It’s not only not very good; but it’s also meaningless ultimately. It’s a weird diversion away from other good writing out […]

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4/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:157 |

The Plot Thickens

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

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So my reading progress has crawled to a halt. And it’s all because of these darn books! They’re so engrossing that I can’t seem to find anything else that will hold my attention. Problem is, I’m doing the audio version. Which is great during my long commute times, but not so great when Little Beth Ellen is in the car or at night, because there’s no way I’m sleeping after listening to this. I’ve taken to doing sudoku before bed as no other books compare, but at the same time I’d like to get a good night’s sleep. We’ve jumped […]

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3/24/2017 's CBR9 Review No:20 |


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