Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: JK Rowling

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This doesn’t really count in the hundred books for the year because I have read it (several times) before. But, at the beginning of this week I just needed a comfort read- and this is one of them. I love Harry Potter- and this- the first, is still beautifully innocent. Rowling is just good at developing characters and so as she introduces all the main players we are caught up into a world of imagination. I think that’s the secret of the books: we all have our own picture of Potter, Dumbledore and Snape.

Watch this space for a review of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.. out July 16th.

Comments

Kezzie said…
Ah, this is my comfort-read as well! And I totally agree with you about your own images!It was one of the few books I took with me to Bali! I even bought it in Indonesian!
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