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Jane's Great Re-Read: Prisoner of Azkaban
I have really been looking forward to re-reading this one. This is where things start heating up. Harry blows up Aunt Marge, there’s the lovely bit with the Knight Bus. Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, the marauders. Oh yes Sirius and Lupin I adore them. So many characters and elements get introduced in this novel I can’t wait to get reacquainted with them. I remember Prisoner of Azkaban as being the book where the stakes really got high and it felt tightly plotted and well executed. The doorstops that come after this loose some of the tightness that is in this one. Also the cover has a purple header. I…
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Jane's Great Re-Read: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
After a couple of new reads: Eleanor and Park and Transmuted I am starting Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. This is probably my least favourite of all the Harry Potter books, I think it’s down to the fact that JK Rowling tries so hard to persuade the reader that Hagrid might be responsible for Muggle Attacks and even from the first reading I was adamant that it could never be him. I’m not a fan of Gilderoy Lockhart either. But then we aren’t supposed to be. I suppose I just think of this novel as being the weakest. That said I’m returning after a gap of five years…
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Jane's Great ReRead: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
I’m tackling this in two parts: the first general experience of re-reading for the millionth time and secondly five things that made me tingly warm in a fangirl sense. I have tried to count up how many times I’ve read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, definitely more than seven, I’m guessing maybe as many as ten I discovered Harry Potter in my final year of University and I was going to be an English Teacher so I made a point of reading ‘kids books’ so that I would have a wealth of recommendations for students (I was exceedingly idealistic even if it didn’t work out for me). I fell…
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Jane's Great Re-Read Harry Potter
And so the great re-read is kicking off with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. This series of books is my ultimate comfort read. I am imagining slipping my feet into warmed slippers as I open my beaten up copy of Philosopher’s Stone for what could well be the tenth time. So here it is. Well thumbed and yellowing with age. It smells of Suncream and a misspent youth. Harry Potter was the first fandom I participated in. I loved theorising what would happen. I found the books just before they exploded into ubiquity I was recommended by a friend and I can remember feeling a bit snobby about…
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Jane's Great Re-read
Look at the sexy logo. Do you like it? Designed by the fabulous @_BabydollNikki_ on twitter. Jane’s Great Re-read is happening. I am in the process of choosing a selection of books each month that I want to enjoy again. I’ve already picked which series I want to revisit first. I’ve been needing to re-read this like an ache in my side and it is the Harry Potter series. I’ve not touched the series since reading Deathly Hallows and I’ve missed the world and I want to go back to it. I need the familiarity of Hogwarts right now. Harry Potter books were a great comfort for me during the tumultuous…