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It was 2000 when I first read Harry Potter. My friend Super Suz recommended the series to me but I put off reading it for ages. I wasn’t into reading much young adult stuff back then and my argument for not reading them was that I wasn’t interested in reading children’s book. How book-snobbish of me.
It was around the time the first film was coming out and I was hearing a lot about the controversy that was being stirred up over witchcraft and censorship. Censorship and banning books is one of my ...more
It was around the time the first film was coming out and I was hearing a lot about the controversy that was being stirred up over witchcraft and censorship. Censorship and banning books is one of my ...more
It was 2000 when I first read Harry Potter. My friend Super Suz recommended the series to me but I put off reading it for ages. I wasn’t into reading much young adult stuff back then and my argument for not reading them was that I wasn’t interested in reading children’s book. How book-snobbish of me.
It was around the time the first film was coming out and I was hearing a lot about the controversy that was being stirred up over witchcraft and censorship. Censorship and banning books is one of my ...more
It was around the time the first film was coming out and I was hearing a lot about the controversy that was being stirred up over witchcraft and censorship. Censorship and banning books is one of my ...more
J.K. Rowling is a great writer. She brings another world to life in the eyes of fans all around the Earth. She has been criticized for creating a world and just going off of an original idea not knowing what was going to happen next. It does not matter how she did it, but she did create a world that I personally have seen in friends that awakens the reader in a dormant person. I have been able to see even more people starting to read in their daily lives because of J.K. Rowling. Granted those pe
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Oh how I love this book (and series). It's been years since I last read the Harry Potter series (honestly... I think it's been since book 7 came out when I reread them all in preparation for the finale!) I've seen the movies countless times, and have read the Sorcerer's Stone at least 4 or 5 times previously, but it was just as magical and engaging this time as ever before. JK Rowling created actual literary magic when she brought Harry, Ron, Hermione and the others to life. I won't wait as long
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Dec 13, 2007
Tara Nichols
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it was amazing
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