Thoughts for the Serious Reader of Harry Potter
Harvard has posted the transcript to Ms. Rowling’s Commencement Address. I give it five stars, not because it had any JFK or Churchill moments, but because it avoided the disaster it might have been and did all that a graduation speech can do.
The pitfalls she avoided? [Read more…]
This is the Big Week! Joanne Rowling comes to America’s big-name University campus Thursday to deliver the Commencement Address. Not quite the big deal we enjoyed last summer, but something to anticipate, nonetheless. What will she say?
Here are my three guesses: [Read more…]
For those of you thinking about whether to come to Ottawa next month to attend the ‘Harry Potter for Grown-Ups’ Conference (Convention Alley 2008) and who needed just one more reason to sign up and make a room reservation, here are two or three reasons! [Read more…]
Hogs Head Tavern landed an interview with Michael Ward, author of Planet Narnia, when he was in New York earlier this year and it is a WOW event. Of the many articles and reviews of the movie ‘Prince Caspian’ just released by Walden/Disney, all of which discuss the book as an aside or in lengthy comparisons, none of them captures what the book is about as powerfully as does Michael Ward in his answers to Johnny’s excellent questions at the Tavern. [Read more…]
Hard as it may be to believe, Laura H., a serious reader in California who has enjoyed my books, is a finalist in the “Win a chance to Read Tales of Beedle the Bard Yourself Contest” sponsored by Amazon.com. She’s already won the ’18 and Over’ contest.
Your vote could put her over the top! Vote today and canvas your friends! I’ve asked her to introduce herself below. Here’s hoping she wins — and that she’ll share her impressions with us when she gets back from her trip to Beedle-ville.
Recent Conversation