Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: A #KeepTheSecrets Review
When my friend and I arrived in London we walked through King’s Cross Station, passed Platforms 9 and 10, wandered through the Platform 9 ¾ store, and then made our […]
Author Archives: Christopher Owen
J.K. Rowling’s Torturous Short Stories
“There are celebrities – and then there are celebrities.” – J.K. Rowling as Rita Skeeter in the Harry Potter Sequel, “Dumbledore’s Army Reunites at Quidditch World Cup Final” If […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Five: Rules of Summer
“Never break the rules. Especially if you don’t understand them.” – Shaun Tan, Rules of Summer Congratulations! You have made it to the fifth and final day of “Five […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Four: Tales from Outer Suburbia
“whenever we had followed his pointy hoof we’d always been surprised, relieved, and delighted at what we’d found. And every time we’d said exactly the same thing – ‘How did […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Three: The Arrival
Welcome! You have just arrived at day three of The Book Wars’ “Five Days with Shaun Tan.” These past two days we have looked at two picture books with characters […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Two: The Red Tree
“sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to” – Shaun Tan, The Red Tree This past semester I took a creative writing class for the first time since […]
Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day One: The Lost Thing
“So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you’d laugh yourself unconscious, others so […]
David Levithan – A Review
“I want love to conquer all. But love can’t conquer anything. It can’t do anything on it’s own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.” – Everyday […]
The Divergent Trilogy – by Veronica Roth
“I tip my chin up. I will not flinch. If I flinch, I prove to Eric that this is not as easy as I said it was; I prove that […]
Bernard Beckett’s Genesis
“‘I wasn’t built by humans. I was built by Ideas […] Thought built me because Thought could. And what will happen next? Thought will use me, just as surely as […]
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