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cordelianne) wrote2005-07-04 10:37 pm
cordelianne) wrote2005-07-04 10:37 pm
I'm not going to Hogwarts. (btvs 5:2)
I stayed up late last night finishing Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Mental note: don't decide to read "a few pages before bed" if I'm nearing the climactic chapters. I got totally hooked (despite already knowing what happens) and couldn't put the book down.
A few very random things that I like about the Prisoner of Azkaban:
1. Professor Lupin: He's just so patient and calm, and cool (best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher ever!!).
2. Rowling explores problems within the friend group of Harry, Ron and Hermione. I get all teary when Hagrid talks to Harry and Ron about how upset Hermione is by their anger with her.
3. The Animangus stuff is cool!!
4. The time travel stuff is very well-done (they also did a good job of it in a movie). I don't understand physics or anything science very well but my understanding of time travel is that it should work the way it does in these books - the stuff that Harry and Hermoine travel in time to do should already have happened the first time Harry and Hermione experienced those events (when the viewpoint is from the time traveling Harry & Hermione we just get more info/insight into what happened but new stuff doesn't technically occur). My thinking is that if it doesn't happen this way, it creates a paradox. I'm not sure if this makes much sense - I'm having a hard time explaining it.
5. The themes of family and friendship that dominate this book (and are also in the other Harry Potter books). I'm a big fan of the idea of a chosen family (although I'm fortunate to have a close relationship to my biological family) and like how that's explored in the Harry Potter books.
I'm now trying to resist reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire until I'm actually traveling on Wednesday. I now feel confident that I will read all the books by the time the 6th one arrives at my apartment door!
After finishing the Prisoner of Azkaban I felt free to watch last night's Entourage episode today. I'm loving it (not in the McDonald's commercial jingle way, but in the real life actually loving something way). Bob Saget guest starring as himself is totally fun. I'm now all worried about whether Vince will get the Aquaman role (the writers have really developed some good tension and conflict around this issue). Jeremy Piven continues to shine as Ari - it's so sleazy-agent him when he picks up his daughter from school only so he can harass the Warner's exec (the fabulous Constance Zimmer - Sister Lily from Joan of Arcadia). I'm all excited for when they go to Sundance!
When I was in Indigo getting a nice hardcover edition of Anne of Green Gables (a token of our childhood friendship) as a wedding gift for my cousin, I also checked out the bargain table .... and discovered 2 Buffy script books!!! Since they were only a few dollars each I snapped them up. It will be excellent reference and research for my television writing. Of course my Buffy-fan self is just excited to read the scripts!
A few very random things that I like about the Prisoner of Azkaban:
1. Professor Lupin: He's just so patient and calm, and cool (best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher ever!!).
2. Rowling explores problems within the friend group of Harry, Ron and Hermione. I get all teary when Hagrid talks to Harry and Ron about how upset Hermione is by their anger with her.
3. The Animangus stuff is cool!!
4. The time travel stuff is very well-done (they also did a good job of it in a movie). I don't understand physics or anything science very well but my understanding of time travel is that it should work the way it does in these books - the stuff that Harry and Hermoine travel in time to do should already have happened the first time Harry and Hermione experienced those events (when the viewpoint is from the time traveling Harry & Hermione we just get more info/insight into what happened but new stuff doesn't technically occur). My thinking is that if it doesn't happen this way, it creates a paradox. I'm not sure if this makes much sense - I'm having a hard time explaining it.
5. The themes of family and friendship that dominate this book (and are also in the other Harry Potter books). I'm a big fan of the idea of a chosen family (although I'm fortunate to have a close relationship to my biological family) and like how that's explored in the Harry Potter books.
I'm now trying to resist reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire until I'm actually traveling on Wednesday. I now feel confident that I will read all the books by the time the 6th one arrives at my apartment door!
After finishing the Prisoner of Azkaban I felt free to watch last night's Entourage episode today. I'm loving it (not in the McDonald's commercial jingle way, but in the real life actually loving something way). Bob Saget guest starring as himself is totally fun. I'm now all worried about whether Vince will get the Aquaman role (the writers have really developed some good tension and conflict around this issue). Jeremy Piven continues to shine as Ari - it's so sleazy-agent him when he picks up his daughter from school only so he can harass the Warner's exec (the fabulous Constance Zimmer - Sister Lily from Joan of Arcadia). I'm all excited for when they go to Sundance!
When I was in Indigo getting a nice hardcover edition of Anne of Green Gables (a token of our childhood friendship) as a wedding gift for my cousin, I also checked out the bargain table .... and discovered 2 Buffy script books!!! Since they were only a few dollars each I snapped them up. It will be excellent reference and research for my television writing. Of course my Buffy-fan self is just excited to read the scripts!