Still craving a little more fantasy writing after all the Harry Potter I’ve read this summer, I’ve started reading Un Lun Dun by China Miévelle. Usually an adult writer, Miévelle has aimed this book at a Grade 5-9 audience. However, if you keep in mind that the story is being told from a 12 year [...]

Don’t want to ruin it for anyone else, but… well, you’ll just have to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for yourself. So we wouldn’t spoil it for each other by accident, my son and I decided we would read the last chapter of the book together. I had a lot of catching up [...]

The Harry Potter evening at Assiniboine Park was fun, but, very crowded. Some people ended up lining up right at 10 p.m. to get their books which were handed out at midnight, so, not sure how they had much fun.It was a beautiful night – – lots of music, fire baton twirling, juggling, telescopes to [...]

Only about 12 more hours now… An interesting article here from CBC arts reporter Rachel Giese who is resigned to the end of the Harry Potter series. It includes a neat photo by David Calvert/Associated Press of boxes of the book awaiting distribution.
If you’ve already purchased a voucher from McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg and [...]

The movie was “okay, but, should have been longer” according to my son. For a book that was criticized by some as being too “padded”, perhaps there was no way to fit all the details of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix into a typical-length movie. I would have liked more information about [...]