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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

J.K. Rowling

Start date: September 5, 2021

Finish date: September 29, 2021

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Sep 22, 2011 Audrey rated it it was amazing

Shelves: own-hard-copy, fantasy, all-time-favorites, 2020-misc-books

I’ve read this five or six times now but never while living on Goodreads, so I can do a ~~proper~~ rambling review now.

I first read this book in 2000. My mom gave it me, saying all her students were reading it. But I didn’t pick it up until I saw the fourth book come out on the news and what the crowds were like. The beginning reminded me of Roald Dahl’s Matilda; her parents are a lot like the Dursleys. The book also reminded me of the movie “Labyrinth,” partly because Hoggle keeps getting called Ho ...more

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Jun 27, 2011 Branwen Sedai *of the Brown Ajah* rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, favorites

I still remember the first time I read Harry Potter. It was a few months before Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire came out in print, and my parents had gotten my sister the first three books in the series for Christmas to try to encourage her to read. She was not the big reader, I was. So the books went for a while untouched, which made me sad, because they were such beautiful hadcover editions, so I decided to give them a try. I remember being so riveted by this first book that I stayed up al ...more

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Mar 05, 2012 Caryl rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: with-skye-and-felix

So fun to read this again, this time with both my son (age 7) and daughter (age 12). What a wonderful world J.K. Rowling created for kids (of all ages!)

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