Harry Potter

Literature 

What I Wish I Could Change About the Harry Potter Books

June 24, 2019May 21, 2020 Gowdy Cannon 6 Comments Books, Children's Literature, Harry Potter, Literature

This series is nearly perfect to me. Nearly.

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500 Words or Less Reviews: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

November 16, 2018July 8, 2019 Gowdy Cannon 6 Comments Fantastic Beasts, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Johnny Depp, Review

REO’s Spoiler-Free Review (500 Words)

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Literature The Arts The Five 

Five Literature Moments That Made Me Ugly Cry

June 8, 2018July 17, 2019 Gowdy Cannon 3 Comments Andrew Peterson, Books, Cormac McCarthy, Crying, Emotion, Harper Lee, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Literature, The Lord of the Rings, The Road, The Wingfeather Saga, To Kill a Mockingbird

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Moments That Made Me Ugly Cry or ROTFL

Join me in celebrating the moments where authors brought the emotion (1307 words)

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Literature The Arts 

Reading Ever On – 2018, 1st Quarter

April 23, 2018July 22, 2019 Gowdy Cannon, Ben Plunkett, Michael Lytle, Phill Lytle, D.A. Speer and Nathan Patton 4 Comments 1984, A Grief Observed, A Wrinkle in Time, Book Review, Brandon Sanderson, C.S. Lewis, Children's Literature, Christian Rock, Don Haskins, Free will, Gary R. Habermas, George Orwell, Glory Road, Gregory Alan Thornbury, H.G. Wells, Harry Potter, John Granger, Jonathan Haidt, Joseph Augustus Siess, Larry Norman, Lev Grossman, Leviticus, Madeleine L'Engle, Mary Doria Russell, Michael Licona, Parenting, Reading, Resurrection, Rob Rienow, Robert Picirilli, Stephen M. R. Covey, The Sparrow, The Stormlight Archive, The War of the Worlds, Timothy Keller

Here are the books we read from January to March 2018

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Film Literature The Arts 

Debating Snape

January 15, 2018July 8, 2019 Gowdy Cannon 6 Comments Books, Children's Literature, Harry Potter, Literature, Severus Snape

Was he more hero than villain? Or not? Darkest Timeline Gowdy pays REO a visit to find out. (1760 words)

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The Five 

The Five Turns 100: Remembering the First Five Fives

January 12, 2018July 8, 2019 Gowdy Cannon, Phill Lytle and Ben Plunkett 3 Comments Five, Harry Potter, Monsters, Mother, Movies, Phrases

A celebration of The Five on REO. (1,199 words)

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500 Literature The Arts 

500 + 63 Words or Less Reviews: The Deathly Hallows

September 18, 2017July 8, 2019 Ben Plunkett 6 Comments Books, Children's Literature, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Literature

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series 500 Words or Less Review: Harry Potter

Ben Plunkett completes his epic journey in the world of Harry Potter. (563 words)

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500 Words or Less Reviews: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

July 19, 2017July 8, 2019 Ben Plunkett 3 Comments Books, Children's Literature, Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Literature, Reading, Review

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series 500 Words or Less Review: Harry Potter

Ben Plunkett reviews the sixth book in the Harry Potter series. (500 words)

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500WoL: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

May 22, 2017July 8, 2019 Ben Plunkett 6 Comments Books, Children's Literature, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Literature, Order of the Phoenix

This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series 500 Words or Less Review: Harry Potter

Ben Plunkett reviews the 5th Harry Potter book.

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Film Literature The Arts 

J.K. Rowling, Chekhov’s Gun and the Joys of Rereading

May 1, 2017July 8, 2019 Gowdy Cannon 17 Comments Anton Chekhov, Chekhov's Gun, Children's Literature, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Literature, Plot Twists

Welcome to a world where the inconspicuous is anything but inconsequential. (1,537 words)

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