Having reread the series for the umpteenth time in preparation for Book Seven of the Harry Potter saga to arrive, I’ve consolidated fifty of my past and new predictions into one place. After the book comes out, I will revisit the page to indicate which predictions actually came true.
According to CNN, J.K. Rowling indicated that two unexpected characters will die in the last installment of her Harry Potter series, and she hinted Harry Potter might not survive either. She said, “A price has to be paid. We are dealing with pure evil here. They don’t target extras do they? They go for the [...]
Could Severus Snape be helping Harry Potter, despite apparently having killed Dumbledore?
It seems to me that Harry Potter has already had in his possession the Horcrux that he and Dumbledore sought during Year Six. The parchment wedged into the substitute locket that they retrieved while on their excursion contained the note, “To the Dark Lord. I know I will be dead long before you read this… [...]
OK, so this is the first of the alphabetic series where the letter of the alphabet does not represent a key word in the title of the work. I knew I’d have a hard time finding great classics with Q, J, X, and other high-value Scrabble tiles, so I began the exception with the Catcher [...]
I remember listening to the opening of Orson Wells’ radio adaptation of War of the Worlds, but unfathomably do not remember listening to the remainder. So, when I picked up the book by the unrelated Herbert George (or simply “HG”), most of it was still new to me.
I was surprised by the opening chapter’s “humanitarian” [...]
I spent the first half of John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat wondering whether or not the unusual story was an affront to Mexican migrant workers. Of course, the classification of “workers” in this story is a stretch as Danny, Pablo, Jesus Maria, Pilon, Big Joe, and the rest of the inhabitants of the shanty town on [...]
Out of the pile of classic novels that I have accumulated over the years, I recently pulled an unread copy of Johann Wyss’ The Swiss Family Robinson that, according to the book’s ink-stamped inside cover, I acquired over two decades ago from my junior high school library. Fortunately, like the Robinson family, it was a [...]
When I first considering reading Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, I had only a vague idea as to what to expect. I knew that one US soldier entrenched in Europe during World War II realized that in order to stop flying bombing missions, he had to be classified as crazy. Of course, the only way he could [...]
In contrast to the three months it took me to force myself to complete Anna Karenina, only four days passed before I finished Mark Twain’s classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court — and it only took that long because I forced myself to repeatedly put it down so that I wouldn’t finish it [...]
