Gin Jenny, Author at Reading the End

Is it just me

Published 5 Nov 2008 by Gin Jenny

…or does today feel like the first chapter of the first Harry Potter book? I feel like setting off fireworks and sending owls to people. I want to hug conservatives and say “Even Republicans like yourself should be celebrating on this happy, happy day!” Enjoy history while it’s happening, everyone!

Update

Published 4 Nov 2008 by Gin Jenny

Henry VI, Part II, is so much better than Henry VI, Part I. I just wanted to mention that. I’m not done with it yet but it’s way, way, way better than the first part. I’m not saying it’s the best play I’ve ever read, but I’m enjoying it, and I can envision a future in which I might read it again just for fun sometime. There’s so much political intrigue! Plus, shades of future plays – particularly Macbeth. Gloucester’s wife is extremely ambitious, and there are prophecies that are rather cryptic. One contains the line “Let him shun castles”,…

Henry VI, Part I, William Shakespeare

Published 3 Nov 2008 by Gin Jenny

So I took a break from Harry Potter last night – just cause that I was getting really emotional – and went ahead and read Henry VI, Part I. It begins at the funeral of Henry V. Everyone is very worried because there’s still wars going on with the French, and they don’t know how they’re going to do without stalwart Henry V there to guide them. They have lots of fights with the French. They kick off the Wars of the Roses and argue over who should be King, and Joan of Arc is a total witchy bitch. And…

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling

Published 2 Nov 2008 by Gin Jenny

I saw this graph one time on something connected with the Lemony Snicket books, and it showed how as time went on, the number of fortunate events decreased. And that is what I always think of when I read the fifth Harry Potter book. It contains so many depressing things – dementors, Umbridge, writing lines in blood, everyone thinking Harry is crazy, an acknowledgement of Harry’s psychological issues, Cho Chang – and the end makes me feel so very, very sad, for Harry and for Dumbledore. I stayed up until midnight for this book when it came out, at the…

The next reading project

Published 31 Oct 2008 by Gin Jenny

I had this idea because of a weird dream I had. This project is for after I finish reading the Harry Potter books – which I’m taking longer to do than I anticipated, because I’m enjoying it so much and I want to make it last. My next reading project – which will run parallel to my rereading The Good Fairies of New York and Lonely Werewolf Girl before finally reading Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me – will be to read all of Shakespeare’s plays, in chronological order. There’s at least twenty of Shakespeare’s plays I’ve not read, and you…

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling

Published 25 Oct 2008 by Gin Jenny

Holy God, this book is scary. I had completely forgotten how terrifying the scene in the graveyard is. Damn. Goblet of Fire isn’t as unfavoritey to me as I remembered it being. I don’t know why I was so cranky about it. I mean, apart from the Blast-Ended Skrewts, which were a much less important part of the book than I was remembering, and the fact that this book is hard on poor Harry, Goblet of Fire isn’t half bad. I was expecting that I would reread it and decide after all that I liked it even less than Chamber…

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling

Published 18 Oct 2008 by Gin Jenny

Mm, this is the one I’ve been waiting for. My original plan was just to read Prisoner of Azkaban, my most favorite of all the Harry Potter books, but then I decided to read them all, since I knew that would take longer and afford me more lasting satisfaction. In Azkaban, a supporter of Voldemort (and, it more or less goes without saying, murderer) breaks out of the wizard prison Azkaban and is out on the lam, desperate – say the prison guards – to get to Harry and kill him dead. Meanwhile the soul-sucking dementors that generally spend all…

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Of course

Published 18 Oct 2008 by Gin Jenny

Of course my camera isn’t working. I mean, that makes total sense. Of course right this very day on which I got my cool new commonplace book from Ella at Box of Books, of course that would be the day my camera would choose to not work. It won’t save any pictures I take! So you’ll just have to take my word for it that the new commonplace book I got in the mail today is incredibly cool and pretty. I wish I were crafty. I can’t make anything. I’m terrible at drawing and I’m worse at crafts. The only…

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling

Published 16 Oct 2008 by Gin Jenny

You know, if nostalgia was going to cloud my judgment, you’d think I’d like Chamber of Secrets better than I do. It was the first of the Harry Potter books that I bought myself. I remember it really vividly – the Books-a-Million was still open then, and I was young enough that it was a bit of an adventure to buy an expensive hardback all by myself (sheesh, I was a weird fourteen-year-old), and I showed it off to everyone once I got it home, though since none of them had read Harry Potter yet, nobody cared. Except my mother,…

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling

Published 14 Oct 2008 by Gin Jenny

I decided to read these books all over again. The length of my workdays, and the fact that today I was working at one place or another from six-forty in the morning until nine at night, has put the kibosh on any adventurous reading I might feel like doing. I returned all my library books to the library with the intention of reading my books that I already own (but not yet Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me, for which I’m still delaying gratification); and I came up with the bright idea of reading the entire Harry Potter series over from…

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