I am continuing to read through the Harry Potter books and it’s really fascinating. I mean I knew they were good but they are even better than I remember. And there is so much that is catching me by surprise. Warning possible heavy spoilers ahead So, here are some things I don’t remember from Chamber of Secrets after only watching the movies for the last 20 years:Read More →
Lately I’ve been watching YouTube reactions to the Harry Potter movies and they got me in the mood to start rereading the books. Keep in mind that I have read them all but it was around the time the last few were coming out. So it’s been years. I have, however, watched and rewatched the movies. A lot. So rereading just the first, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was an eye-opener to say the least. Naturally, I thought I’d make some notes and post about it. What I wasn’t expecting was for my notes to simply be a list of… Warning possible heavy spoilersRead More →
Having grown up on the 1939 movie, literally every Christmas, it’s easy to forget that it was based upon a fairly lengthy series of children’s books by Frank L Baum. The first book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was first published on May 17, 1900 and was illustrated by W. W. Denslow, a long time collaborator of Baum. Having finally gotten around to reading the original books in recent years, I thought it might be fun to celebrate by comparing a couple of images from the original book to the same scene from the 1939 movie. Dorothy in the tornado Okay, honestly those are nothingRead More →