Harry Potter month (13)
Today is day thirteen of my challenge to post each day about Harry Potter. Quotes, books, films and silliness.
Today is a random silly sketch with a new addition to the scene:
Harry Potter Month (12)
Today is day twelve of my challenge to post each day about Harry Potter. Quotes, books, films and silliness.
As part of my challenge I found out about this fun discussion event called Hype or Like over on Rant and Rave About Books – check it out here if you’re interested in taking part. And here’s the link to the Goodreads page to link up with everyone.
The Discussion this week is:
Imagine it’s the apocalypse, whatever magic is left in the Wizarding World is slowly diminishing, and you need to assemble a team to help you survive. Which 5 characters would you choose for your team, what roles would they play (i.e. Team Leader, Most Cunning, Most Skilled, etc.), and how would they help you survive? You can do whatever you want with this topic. Get creative and have fun with it.
My famous five are as follows:
1. Kickass Magic – Dobby is like super magical – he kicks big butt. He’s just pure magic! Yep, yep, yep – if anyone can save the world of magic it’s Dobby.
2. Fun factor – The Weasley twins – because everyone needs a good old belly laugh every now and again. I love these two boys! I think they’d be great on my team because they relieve the tension and also bring creativity to the table. Bit of a cheat this one because I get two for the price of one!
3. The brains of the outfit: Hermione. Because there’s virtually nothing that this resourceful young witch can’t find out about when she puts her mind to it.
4. The brawn to go with the brains – has got to be Hagrid – he’s always been a larger than life character and one that can just steal your heart because he’s a giant but he’s a huge softie! And, he brings with him a whole bunch of help with all his critters, huge dogs, dragons, enormous spiders (which, ew – but even so – so long as they’re on my team) and Buckbeak! Get on my team now!
5. The glue that holds it together: Minerva McGonagall. Cool and collected. Come on – she can turn into a cat in the blink of an eye. She’s never phased. She taught Ron to dance – whether he wanted to know or not! Told Moody not to transform the students! Stood up to Umbridge. Was there until the end – and nobody beats Minerva! She is a cool cookie.
What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?…
Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme being hosted by Books by Proxy . This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers. The rules are fairly simple and can be found here. Each week, following a predetermined theme (list below) choose a book, compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite (stop on over to Tenacious Reader to post your link so we can all check out each others choices). Simples. This week the theme is:
My winner this week is:
I like the gold on black – that being said I had a tough choice between this and the white cover because that guy on the cover looks like he’s super chilled!
Which is your favourite?
If you fancy joining in with FFO the themes for the next few weeks are below. I’ve listed these as BooksbyProxy is currently a bit swamped and MIA as a result. Don’t worry, ordinary service will be resumed soon 😀
19th August: “The blood is life… and it shall be mine!”- a cover which features ‘blood’
26th August: I sit here looking out at all I own – A cover featuring a throne.
2nd Sept: Hell is empty and all the devils are here – A cover with a demon or demonic creatures.
9th Sept: Pack up your troubles… and … leave – A cover with some form of luggage
16th Sept: A bouquet for you m’lady – A cover featuring a flower/flowers.
23rd Sept: Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, timorous beastie – A cover with a beast or beasts.
Friday Firsts – A Little Knowledge by Emma Newman (Split Worlds book #4)
12 August 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: A Little Knowledge, Emma Newman, Friday Firsts, Split Worlds #4, tenacious reader
Friday Firsts is a new meme that runs every Friday over on Tenacious Reader. The idea is to feature the first few sentences/paragraph of your current book and try and outline your first impressions as a result. This is a quick and easy way to share a snippet of information about your current read. Stop on by and link up with Tenacious Reader.
‘Cathy listened to the argument, weighed its merit, and considered her response carefully, as the Duchess of Londinium should. “This is bullshit.”
That also summarised most of what Cathy had discovered about being Duchess of Londinium. She’d had high hopes – once she’d overcome the sheer dread of having such high status – that the title of Duchess would confer upon her enough power to really make a difference in fae-touched Society. In reality the only power Cathy had was confined to areas in which she had no interest whatsoever.’
My First Impressions
Being the fourth book in the series I have a very good idea (as you might hope!) about what this series is about. This opening scene clearly gives me the impression that even though Cathy left on something of a high note at the end of the last book, things haven’t panned out as she hoped since then.
Other books in the series:
What are you reading right now? Did it start out strong? Feel free to join in.
Harry Potter Month (11)
Today is day eleven of my monthly challenge to post something on a particular theme. This month being Harry Potter.
First things first – in case you didn’t guess the ‘Who am I’ clues from yesterday the answer was Professor McGonagall (Minerva) played by the lovely Maggie Smith:
Moving on. Today I’m looking at covers for book No.2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Again, I’ve barely scratched the surface here – I’ve stuck to ten covers again. I’m partial to the flying car – it’s the cover from the book I own. I also rather like the first image on the second row. Take a look and see what your favourite is.
