Chapter 4 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone brings us Harry’s first meeting with someone from the wizarding world-i.e., Hagrid! And we learn very quickly that Hagrid has no time whatsoever for Vernon Dursley’s shenanigans.

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Chapter 3 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is where stuff starts getting good-and by good, I mean, magical!

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After Chapter 1 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone essentially serving as a prologue, we fast-forward to the present day for Chapter 2, “The Vanishing Glass”!

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In which I officially open the Harry Potter Triwizard Tournament Trilingual Reread with Chapter 1 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: “The Boy Who Lived”!

Commentary and language geekery behind the fold!

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I keep getting errors from Dreamwidth's Varnish server when I try to crosspost over from Wordpress on angelahighland.com. This is vexing! It only just started happening this weekend, and I don't know yet what's causing it ( Read more... )

Grabbed in print from Third Place Books:

• Maplecroft, by Cherie Priest. Which I already have in ebook form, but she’s one of my Must Also Have in Print authors. And because this book in particular is Lizzie friggin’ Borden and it is AWESOME.
• The Winter Long, by Seanan McGuire. Because I swear to gods I need to get caught up on the Toby Dayes. And I ( Read more... )

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This is getting posted in 2015, but it’s actually a 2014 book roundup, because all of these titles were bought before New Year’s!


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It has taken me ages to get through my edits for Victory of the Hawk, you guys. But now that the end is in sight, I’ve had some cycles free up finally. Which means I can get back to the last few bits of my Trilingual Hobbit Reread!

And Chapter 17 of The Hobbit, “The Clouds Burst”, is pretty much where the Battle of Five Armies gets down to Serious ( Read more... )

Yoinked from B&N, digitally:


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