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What I Bought in August.

September 4, 2016September 4, 2016 ~ TheBookishUnderdog ~ Leave a comment

I’ve decided to start doing monthly posts about the different things I bought or received as gifts each month. I know a lot of people do monthly book hauls but I don’t always let myself buy lots of books so I thought this might be interesting.

I did buy some books in August:

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August Reads 2016.

September 1, 2016September 1, 2016 ~ TheBookishUnderdog ~ 2 Comments

I read a lot of books this month, but still haven’t found any new favourites. But anyway, here are the books I read in August!


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1. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.

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Review WITH SPOILERS: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

August 31, 2016 ~ TheBookishUnderdog ~ 5 Comments

Before you read this, I’d like to reiterate that you absolutely must not read this or any other spoiler-y reviews before you see the play! If you’d like to read my thoughts, here is my spoiler-free review of the onstage production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which I was lucky enough to go and see last weekend. (Seriously, I cannot believe my luck. I feel like a member of the A-list.)

If you’ve seen the show and are interested in my general thoughts on acting and staging, I talk about these in the spoiler-free version as well. Below follows an in-depth discussion on the parts of the play that are not common knowledge, like how particular things are staged or certain characters that not everyone knows appear in the story. I’m also writing this under the assumption that people who are reading it know what happens, so I will talk about specific plotpoints. So finally, please please PLEASE do not read on if you haven’t read the script or seen the show! #KeepTheSecrets!!!

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SPOILER-FREE Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

August 31, 2016August 31, 2016 ~ TheBookishUnderdog ~ 10 Comments

Right, so it’s been a few days since I saw Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and I’ve had time to read the script and gather my thoughts. I can now give a proper answer when people ask how it was, rather than just a massive grin and half-finished, garbled words in a language that may or may not be English.

Firstly, this is a review of the play currently running in London’s West End, not the book which is not a book. Secondly, I’ve split this review into two parts (like the play! Ahahahahaha): a spoiler-free review, which follows below, and a more in-depth review here.

Onwards!

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This is Not a Book.

August 23, 2016August 23, 2016 ~ TheBookishUnderdog ~ 9 Comments

Guys, guys. I know how you feel.

I’m lucky enough to have tickets for the show, but even though I’m a massive theatre geek, I wish JKR had written a novel instead.

A lot of people fell in love with reading through Potter. A lot of us already loved to read, but had never found a book as game- and life-changing as when we read Philosopher’s Stone for the first time. It seems like a bit of a slap in the face, therefore, that the 8th story has been reserved for such a select group of people.

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Buying Books Drunk!

August 16, 2016August 16, 2016 ~ TheBookishUnderdog ~ 10 Comments

I had a lovely, fun Saturday! I met up with some friends for a bar crawl around Covent Garden, London. We booked the Ice Bar and I got to eat lobster for the first time in ages, which was probably my favourite part of the day… I love food.

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ReadThemAllThon 2016 – Intro & TBR List.

August 13, 2016August 14, 2016 ~ TheBookishUnderdog ~ 2 Comments

Oh my god, guys, this has to be the best readathon ever – The Pokemon Indigo League #ReadThemAllThon created by Aentee at Read at Midnight.

The idea of the readathon is to treat each book you read between 14th Aug and 4th Sept as a gym that you have to battle. You win CP points by doing certain activities, such as beating a gym (i.e. finishing a book), evolving your pokemon or by reading a certain number of pages (1CP every 10 pages, i.e. 10CP every 100 pages).

For a full list of how you can earn extra CP during the ReadThemAllThon, go take a look at Aentee’s post here where she outlines how to excel at this brilliantly imaginative challenge.

But first, I need to choose my Pokemon!

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