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Welcome to the September edition of monthly news! I'd like to say something exciting happened but actually, September flew by so fast I didn't see the end coming. What about you??


BOOKS: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (recommend)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (recommend)
MOVIES: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (recommend)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (recommend)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (recommend)
Yearly Total: 40 Books & 20 Movies

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Kindle: 3346 KBPrint: 416 pagesPublisher: Harlequin Teen; Original edition (Oct. 1 2018)ASIN: B07843G18J
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One thousand years ago, the great Kami Dragon was summoned to grant a single terrible wish—and the land of Iwagoto was plunged into an age of darkness and chaos.
Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be granted. A new age is about to dawn.
Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her life to hide her yokai nature. Half kitsune, half human, her skill with illusion is matched only by her penchant for mischief. Until the day her home is burned to the ground, her adoptive family is brutally slain and she is forced to flee for her life with the temple’s greatest treasure—one part of the ancient scroll.
There are many who would claim the dragon’s wish for their own. Kage Tatsumi, a mysterious samurai of the Shadow Clan, is one such hunter, under orders to retrieve the scroll…at any …

Welcome to week 395!

RULES:

*Grab a book, any book.

*Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader.
If you have to improvise, that is okay.

*Find a snippet, short and sweet.

*Post it, and add the url to your post in the Linky below.

Also join in the fun on Instagram using the hashtags #Instagram56 #Friday56

Happy weekend to you all!
Still with Harry Potter book 5. This is a big, big book. I'm almost halfway through, so I might actually be on this again next week. Let's hope not though.

Check out this read on Amazon.
Here is my snippet from page 256, even though I am a little further along now.

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Rated PG 157 minutes
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Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is about to start and he is enjoying the summer vacation with his friends. They get the tickets to The Quidditch World Cup Final but after the match is over, people dressed like Lord Voldemort's 'Death Eaters' set a fire to all the visitors' tents, coupled with the appearance of Voldemort's symbol, the 'Dark Mark' in the sky, which causes a frenzy across the magical community. That same year, Hogwarts is hosting 'The Triwizard Tournament', a magical tournament between three well-known schools of magic : Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. The contestants have to be above the age of 17, and are chosen by a magical object called Goblet of Fire. On the night of selection, however, the Goblet spews out four names instead of the usual three, with Harry unwittingly being selected as the Fourth Champion. Since the magic cannot be reversed, Harry …

Paperback: 640 pagesPublisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books (Sept. 1 2014)ISBN: 9781408855683
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Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. But unfortunately for Harry Potter, he's not normal - even by wizarding standards. And in his case, different can be deadly.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was J.K. Rowling's first novel, followed by the subsequent six titles in the Harry Potter series, as well as three books written for charity: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the…

Welcome to week 394!

RULES:

*Grab a book, any book.

*Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader.
If you have to improvise, that is okay.

*Find a snippet, short and sweet.

*Post it, and add the url to your post in the Linky below.

Also join in the fun on Instagram using the hashtags #Instagram56 #Friday56

Happy weekend to you all!
Back to Harry Potter!

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Here is my snippet from page 56, even though I am not there yet. I am actually on page 6 as I type this up.

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