This chapter is an overview of what Harry’s life has been like living with the Dursleys. I think this is covered fairly well in the film adaptation. The main thing missing here […]
Movie vs. Book – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s (Philosopher’s) Stone Chapter 1: The Boy Who Lived
Where I chapter by chapter review the book versus the movie. Some differences are minor, while sometimes entire stories were jettisoned from the films, which is why I encourage people to read […]
2021 in Review: My Year in Books
Below are the books I read this year. If I’ve posted a review, the images will be clickable to that review. After watching Bridgerton on Netflix, I had a desire to read […]
J.K. Rowling and the Problem of Heroification
In an interesting bit of synchronicity, in early December I read an article about the upcoming Harry Potter Reunion (for the record I watched it first thing this morning) and the “problem” […]
Book Review: Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich – Is Stephanie Going After Santa Claus?
When breezing through all of the numbered books in Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series, it seemed like something happened between the eighth and ninth novels that I’d missed. I even went back […]
Movie Review: Beverly Hills Cop – Before 90210 Glamorized It, Eddie Murphy Made Us Laugh At It
Written by Danilo Black and Daniel Petrie Jr.Directed by Martin Brest Long before Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer became synonymous with summer blockbuster and high-action films, they produced Beverly Hills Cop, an […]
My November 2021 Round-Up
Good day, my readers. I started this the end of November, but with one thing or another, I never managed to finish it. Despite my continuing writer’s block, November was a good […]
Winter in the White Mountains
I have been in a bit of a writing funk for the last few months. I’ve had zero inspiration to write new posts, or re-work the old posts I have from my […]
Book Review – Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert by John Barylick
In February of 2003, one of the worst nightclub disasters ever in the United States took place in the town of West Warwick, Rhode Island. The 80’s hair band, Great White, was […]
Book Review: Dead Wrong by M.K. Coker – When Does Life End?
In M.K.Coker’s series of books set in South Dakota, the key to the series is in the past, and readers are given details as to what’s taken place on the desolate prairie […]
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