Tag: J.K. Rowling
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What I Read in December
Decembers are busy months, filled with parties and lists and shopping trips. They’re not often filled with books. I wrote this year about how I was not excited for Christmas, and I think part of the reason is that I hadn’t been reading. My heart gets a little grumpy when I haven’t been reading often…
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Story in Review: Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K Rowling is a book you should probably read sometime between now and November. Maybe even a few times, really. As if anyone expected less of the Queen of Fantasy, the short volume is filled with just the sort of turn of phrase that Rowling has become famous…
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Story in Review: Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling
Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling is a little book created from a big speech: Rowling’s 2008 commencement speech at Harvard University (you can read the speech on Harvard’s site here, and watch the video of the speech here). As with all things written by J.K. Rowling, the speech is full of nuggets of wisdom and…