With the 15th anniversary coming up, Scholastic unveiled earlier this week that they have collaborated with Amulet’s illustrator Kazu Kibuishi to give a whole new look to this beloved 7-book series by J.K. Rowling. I really like this more modern and stylized look. While I already own two sets of this series (the colourful “children’s” covers [...]
And the winners of my Facebook giveaway are….
That’s right, there were TWO winners. As a thank you to getting 400 fans, I hosted a giveaway where the prize was a signed ARC of Envy by Elizabeth Miles and a Wizarding World of Harry Potter souvenir I would have picked up when I was there a couple weeks ago. The winner chosen already has [...]
Swoon-Worthy Sundays: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
This week’s Swoon-Worthy Sundays feature really shouldn’t come as a surprise. What does come as a surprise though is how hard it is for me to write about how amazing the Wizarding World was and do it justice. I was in Orlando for 4 days and because we were staying at an on-site hotel, it [...]
Stacking the Shelves 32
Well – I’m BACK from the magical world of Harry Potter… believe me, I did not want to leave that to come back to snow in Toronto.. I’ll do a fuller recap/pics in tomorrow’s blog post, but since I didn’t get many books this week – I’ll share with you all the lovely things I [...]
Swoon-Worthy Sundays: The Harry Potter Wizard’s Collection
I knew there was a reason why I saved my Best Buy gift card from Christmas. It was so I could save it to use it for the Harry Potter Wizard’s Collection, of course! I remember seeing all the buzz about it when it was first announced, thinking it was AGES away before it was [...]
Bad Boys… with a Heart of Gold
I’ve always had a soft spot for that fictional bad boy; be in it TV, movies or books. Not just any bad boy though, it’s the bad boy with the heart of gold. The one with the tough exterior, but he’s got a vulnerable side that comes through as the story progresses. One that the [...]
Review: Potted Potter
What a brilliant show. I honestly had no idea what to expect, but I knew I had to see it. I mean, c’mon, it’s Harry Potter. Potted Potter is a parody by Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner – two fantastically hilarious actors – who spoof all seven Harry Potter books in seventy minutes. My friend [...]
How Biebs prevented me from getting closer to Draco
I was reminded of this story when I was on my way to work this morning and heard on the radio that Daniel Radcliffe was in Toronto today to promote The Woman in Black. So I thought I would share with everyone my experience of going to see Tom Felton at Much On Demand, and [...]
Blogging the World of Harry Potter
How different would the release of Harry Potter have been if it came out today rather than in 1997? Computers in every home were not common when we were first introduced to the world that J.K. Rowling had so intricately & lovingly created, let alone book blogging. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (or Sorcerer’s Stone) was [...]
347/365: Top 10 Tuesday
Weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten Books I Want To Give As Gifts (and to who…even if you won’t actually give them!) Hmm this is a tough one, since I probably would have bought them that very book if I wanted to give it as a gift. Instead, I’m going [...]
