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Author Archives: Christopher Owen

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: A #KeepTheSecrets Review

July 15, 2016by Christopher Owen 1 Comment

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 […]

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Harry Potter, Performing Arts, Play

J.K. Rowling’s Torturous Short Stories

July 23, 2014by Christopher Owen 1 Comment

“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 […]

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Fan Culture, Fandoms, Fantasy, Harry Potter, Short Stories, Short Story, This Month's Theme

Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Five: Rules of Summer

May 2, 2014by Christopher Owen 1 Comment

“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 […]

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Art and Illustrations, Australian Author, How To, picturebook, Picturebooks, This Month's Theme, Young Adult

Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Four: Tales from Outer Suburbia

May 1, 2014by Christopher Owen Leave a comment

“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 […]

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Australian Author, Guest Post, picturebook, Picturebooks, Short Story, This Month's Theme, Young Adult

Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Three: The Arrival

April 30, 2014by Christopher Owen Leave a comment

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 […]

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Art and Illustrations, Australian Author, Comics, Guest Post, picturebook, Picturebooks, This Month's Theme, Young Adult

Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day Two: The Red Tree

April 29, 2014by Christopher Owen 4 Comments

“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 […]

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Australian Author, picturebook, Picturebooks, This Month's Theme, Young Adult

Five Days with Shaun Tan – Day One: The Lost Thing

April 28, 2014by Christopher Owen 4 Comments

“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 […]

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Art and Illustrations, Australian Author, picturebook, Picturebooks, This Month's Theme, Young Adult

David Levithan – A Review

February 21, 2014by Christopher Owen 4 Comments

“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  […]

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This Month's Theme, YA Romance, Young Adult

The Divergent Trilogy – by Veronica Roth

November 20, 2013by Christopher Owen 3 Comments

“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 […]

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Dystopian, Review

Bernard Beckett’s Genesis

November 15, 2013by Christopher Owen 4 Comments

“‘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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Dystopian, Science Fiction

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