Reading the End

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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Getting the Girl, Markus Zusak (another unreviewy review)

Published 13 Oct 2008 by Gin Jenny

Sheesh, I read this right after Fighting Ruben Wolfe and then completely forgot to review this. It’s because so many new things are happening. I’m not just making an excuse. There are a lot of things going on in my life at the moment. For instance: 1. New job 2. New commitment to regular writing schedule 3. New phone and laptop 4. New record player 5. Loads and loads of new records – some purchased, some given to me by kind aunt and uncle – and the discovery of a wondrous record store in town 6. New addiction to Jodi…

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Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult

Published 12 Oct 2008 by Gin Jenny

The addiction continues. This one’s about a school shooting. Only one silly thing happens, and it’s not all that silly. Definitely not as silly as poisoning the Louisiana priest with antifreeze in his cocoa. …I can’t do this. I don’t have the heart to continue reviewing this. I’m too depressed. I’m about to go directly into a decline. I’m taking to my bed and I may never rise from it again. I have several seasons of Gilmore Girls out from the library, my computer is plugged in, I have my cross-stitching, and I can stay lying in this flip chair…

Perfect Match and Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult

Published 10 Oct 2008 by Gin Jenny

Sigh. I know she’s better than this. Ms. Picoult is an excellent writer. She does good dialogue, her characters are generally consistent, the little kids are really good little kids. In each case where I have begun reading a book of hers, I have stayed up way past my bedtime finishing it. (In the case of Vanishing Acts, I was already up thoroughly late because I was introducing my friend Teacher to Firefly and I didn’t want to let her leave until she totally liked it and had stopped saying snide things about Kaylee. Victory!) So I will not suggest…

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