Why I Really Like This Book
English professor Kate Macdonald talks about the books she loves but which don't make it onto the curriculum. These ten-minute audio podcasts are about forgotten fiction, and non-fiction, and are for readers who love to discover something to read that's been around for a while. ...
English professor Kate Macdonald talks about the books she loves but which don't make it onto the curriculum. These ten-minute audio podcasts are about forgotten fiction, and non-fiction, and are for readers who love to discover something to read that's been around for a while. The first series is working through the alphabet by author surname. In 2012 series two will tackle genre fiction.
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Announcing katemacdonald.net
Why I Really Like This Book is reborn, as katemacdonald.net! ...
Why I Really Like This Book is reborn, as katemacdonald.net! Also tweeting at @KateRLTB. Your usual reading entertainment and pernickety disquisitions on books and authors that Kate really, really likes will continue there.
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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
It's the last Harry Potter book, and what a finale. ...
It's the last Harry Potter book, and what a finale. All ends tied up, nothing flapping loose, all deaths accounted for, grudges paid off, revenges taken, and people growing up. For readers who like to see the workings exposed and a story told well.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The gloom increases in Hary Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, ...
The gloom increases in Hary Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and there are devious dark doings in Voldemort's camp for us to worry about as well. Horcruxes become especially tricky. Ginny and Harry become an item. Bellatrix does a lot of...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
It just gets gloomier as the Ministry of Magic gets ...
It just gets gloomier as the Ministry of Magic gets more authoritarian. The Order of the Phoenix is part teenage angst festival, and part 1984 with wands. Everything that could go wrong when teenagers are left to sort the world out nearly does. For...
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The biggest, the most dangerous, the emotionally tormenting so far, ...
The biggest, the most dangerous, the emotionally tormenting so far, The Goblet of Fire is where Ron starts getting stroppy, Harry gets butterflies in his stomach, and Cedric doesn't do so well. It's a massive novel, and the subtext is very politically...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
It's the Knight Bus, and Sirius Black, and Buckbeak, and ...
It's the Knight Bus, and Sirius Black, and Buckbeak, and Dementors, and Lupin: Harry Potter begins to grow up in The Prisoner of Azkaban so much we can almost see the hormones taking effect.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Pod 2 in my survey of the Harry Potter novels. ...
Pod 2 in my survey of the Harry Potter novels. The Chamber of Secrets is about growing up and getting embarrassed, duels, the basilisk in the pipes, and interesting hallucinations brought on by an enchanted diary.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Also called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first ...
Also called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first Harry Potter novel is a great source for questions and a lot of plotting for the future. But it's most rewarding as a journey into wonder and the delight of invention.
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Owen Wister and Lady Baltimore
Stuff That Really Happened
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Sylvia Townsend Warner and The Corner That Held Them
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