"The person, be in gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." H. Tilney (Northanger Abbey)
At risk of beating a dead horse here, I am so sorry for being so ridiculously irresponsible with this blog! We were doing so well and then I fell off the map and well, long story short, I'm back and I'm ready to talk books. Let's pick up where we left off shall we? In …
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My holiday readathon of Harry Potter lasted a little longer than anticipated, so Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows became the first book I read in the New Year. This review will be short because I haven't had much time to write and reflect with the post-holiday funk I'm feeling and work and all of …
The beast is conquered! The longest and most convoluted of the Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, chose a terrible time to be my current read: I started it the weekend before Thanksgiving, and the holiday season, working, and a death in the family all arrived very shortly after so …
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This has gone so much faster than I anticipated! It's been only a touch over a week and I've already powered though four books in this incredible/amazing/magical/fantastic/perfect series! I began book five today, but I also got my holiday work schedule and, friends, the book reading train is about to be derailed. But! Enough of …
I'm on a roll! Two books in two days! I finished Chamber of Secrets this evening (and will maybe, possibly start Prisoner of Azkaban tonight?) after a lovely day of more cats, more tea, and some rain. I'm moving quickly through the earlier novels partly because they're smaller, partly because these are the ones I'm …
Immediately after the bell struck midnight on Halloween night, Christmas awoke from its year long slumber. I'm not joking, there were Christmas trees cropping up where mere hours ago a jack-o-lantern was standing sentry. I think we have this discussion as a society every year, but I'll say it again -- I think Christmas came …
