Day: November 20, 2010

Three sentence movie reviews: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I


I’m not the biggest fan of the movies as they cannot possibly include all that the books do, but I found this quite a good adaptation. This goes to prove what I’ve been saying: books five, six and seven all deserve to be split in two because too much happens to be contained in one two-hour movie. However, at Harry Potter Party VII, mostly the talk was of how well it was done.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2010/harry_potter_and_the_deathly_hallows_part_i.html

Eeeeeeeee! Today’s the day.

My account at the library says that Moonlight Mile, the long awaited next book in the Kenzie/Gennaro series is waiting for me at the library. The library which opens at guess what time? I shall walk over there now.


Indeed, here I am standing outside the library waiting for it to open.

I check my books on hold and find: nothing. Well, one book that I requested is there, but it is not Moonlight Mile. Puzzled, I recheck my account and find that [insert tremendous disappointment and crestfallen nature here] I have jumped the gun. In my excitement I have read the screen wrong and Moonlight Mile, while on its way, is not waiting for me at this moment.

I return to the hold shelf, grab my other hold, sigh, check it out, turn to go and that is when something stops me. I decide to check out the Lucky Day cart to see if they have anything good. I almost don’t do this, because I’ve got a long reading list for the Mock Printz workshop as well as a tremendously boring Library book group book to read as well as a sporadic book group book to read and who has time for something on the Lucky Day cart?

You will never guess what was there.

Yep.

Eeeeeeeee! I’ve got about four hours until it’s time to leave for the Harry Potter party and I will be doing only one thing.

Notes from sporadic book group.

For when I get stuck with “what to read” I bring the notes, lovingly typed up by Deborah, of our inaugural book group.

Books mentioned with enthusiasm at the first meeting of the Sporadic Book Group, 11/6/10 (Attendees: Deborah, Patricia, Amy, Danielle, Kelly)

Prodigal Summer
One Day
In the Woods
The Likeness
Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Magic Thief
An Abundance of Katherines
My Life So Far (Jane Fonda)
Personal History (Katherine Graham)
Zeitoun (Eggers)
Possession (Byatt)
Where Men Win Glory
Into the Wild
My Own Country
Facing the Lion
Bonyo Bonyo
The Blind Side
An American Wife
Whale Talk
King of the Mild Frontier
Tales of the Madman Underground
Nature Girl (Hiaasen)
Moo (Smiley)
The Ghosts of Ashton High
We Planted a Tree
The Death-Defying Pepper Roux (described by Danielle’s sister as “Candide for kids”)
Eating Animals

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