I didn't finish a single book in June, further disappointing myself on top of all the other tasks I failed to accomplish. So, I was very proud to have finished three books in July. Even though I'd started them earlier in the year, it felt real good to complete them.
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The beginning was slow reading, with long descriptions and vague references that I had to keep looking up on the internet to decipher. While I consider myself culturally unaware, I think it still would have taken a little searching to figure it all out. Once I resigned myself to reading without fully understanding every sentence, the story read more quickly. About halfway through I began to lose interest. Some plot lines dragged on a bit, and at points the book skipped ahead years within a chapter or two. It seemed like too much detail was given to newer characters without fleshing out the original ones. The ending was also abrupt, but I honestly have no idea how the book could have ended in a different way. With such a long story, eventually it has to just...end.
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When it comes to reading Harry Potter, there's only a few groups of people: the super re-readers, the have-read-series-once, the want-to-read-series, and the no-interest. Basically, no need for me to describe it in depth to you. I really liked the Winky and SPEW storyline, especially since it's cut out of the movie. And Cedric's death is given a comical lack of drama -- Harry just hazily sees the curse and, oh, he's dead now. Gotta drag a body.
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Though I should have gotten to this before now, reading this in the current climate gives it a horrifying twinge I never would have experienced has I read this back in 2009. The fear of surveillance, exploitation of people of color, and rewriting history to benefit those in power hit differently in a time where trusting government or corporations is simply laughable.
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