Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 16-25)
From the first day of Defense Against The Dark Arts class to Professor Quirrell’s first real conversation with Rita Skeeter.
What do you think?
Category: Books
Sunday Morning! “What we Salvage” (2015)
Reading a novel set in my current city three decades ago made me wonder how important setting is for fiction. Let’s talk about it.
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 6-15)
From getting the wand to the Sorting Hat to the end of the First Day at Hogwarts
Ordinary Bookclub: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (Chapters 1-5)
Okay. So we’ve read the first five chapters.
What do you think?
Sunday Morning! “Killing Commendatore” by Haruki Murakami
On the most recent tour of Haruki Murakami’s imagination and an exploration of artistic creation itself.
The Ordinary Bookclub makes its Triumphant Return with Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Yes, it’s fanfic. No, you won’t mind.
Adventure Time?
I’ve heard it said that at its heart, science fiction is really just an adventure story.
While this may be true, I don’t believe “adventure” is the reason I enjoy the genre.
Sunday Morning! “Swing Time” by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith’s most recent novel about female friendships, identity, dance, and how we grow out of the soil in which we were planted.
Sunday Morning! “The Golden House”
In his recent novel, Salman Rushdie shows how reinventing oneself is damned hard to pull off, even in New York.
Forgiveness is Divine
The weirdest thing about forgiveness is that in the end it really isn’t about the person you’re forgiving, it’s about you.
Ten Shot: Swallows and Amazons
A quick take on the young adult movie from 2017, Swallows and Amazons.
Ashes in the Wind
Can two people set aside their differences and under the influences of hormones and hearts, live happily ever after?
The Twilight Zone
Everything you ever wanted to know about women, you can learn from reading “Twilight”.
To Stand Athwart Myth
To dive deeper into the implications of Mark Greif’s “Against Everything,” Roland Barthes’ “Mythologies” is required.
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