my Writing About Poetry prof. thought the puns littered about my comparative essay were so bad that she wants me to email her a copy of it so that future poetry students may gape, marvel and critique - perhaps cry profusely as well. ask if you want to be subject to the same awkward phrasing and hazily communicated brilliance.
in grade three, i tried out for the 100m sprint against the rest of my classmates. i always came second to my friend, Elias - a much taller, and much more Greek kid. my theory was that he had longer legs and Olympic genes. i was a very competitive kid, and on the last race of the year i purposed to win. but win, i did not. as fast as i could pump my little legs, Elias' longer stride made up for his slightly slower acceleration. at the halfway point i just put my head down and ran as hard as i could. as i shortened the gap between us i felt a twinge of confusion - my legs were moving faster than my brain could comprehend. in that moment, 11 strides from the finish line between the white rusty soccer posts, i tripped. and fell. and finished third.
this morning, i finished learning the rest of that lesson.
but the hair sure is fancy.
i think this will be the first harry potter movie (harry potter and the goblet of fire - my favourite book of the series) that i am looking forward to, even though i still haven't seen harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban. hopefully costco will play it. or maybe they'll rent it for a daycare movie day.
or maybe it's because you cannot hear
me when i mumble (all the time). you make
me smile. thank you for your letters... and yeah...
they were interesting =P
plot: as the driving force of this expository tome, the plot truly thickens in rowling's sixth installment in the harry potter series. the stage is set for the seventh, which will obviously have the requisite showdowns and epilogues. the plot progresses at a good clip for most of the book, bordering on breakneck speed at the end. relative to the pace of the fifth book, anything would feel fast.
character: thank you! harry potter is not an angry git anymore. romance is laid on more heavily than usual in children's fantasy books; but harry potter wasn't a children's book to begin with. the budding of certain relationships is contrasted with the dark times that have befallen what is supposed to be a key growing time. it offers a glimpse of what life for harry and co. would be like if there was no war raging.
notes: you have to take it for what it is: exposition. this book is laden with exposition. Voldemort's backstory is revealed piece-meal: an evocative tragedy of circumstance that sort of parellel's Harry's own history. readers should expect heavy plot movement and action-packed chapters. fans of quidditch will be disappointed, but in the face of open war, who really has time for sport?
4/5 - mildly bloated, though it's pretty clear that rowling was keeping it as short as she could. detentions were glossed =P the big death was obvious and necessary, but no less painful.
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