Hello, readers! And welcome back to Book Beat, our weekly roundup of book news and literary curiosities. This week, I’ve got some Harry Potter frustrations and a report on gender bias.
Thursday Book Beat: Fantastic Beasts, Trump Trolls, and How to Avoid Family This Thanksgiving
Hi book lovers! I’m still holed up in the library studying but like Varys in Game of Thrones I have my little birds (Twitter and the internet) keeping me up to date. Sometimes I look at the books I have to read longingly and tell myself this is motivation to finish my papers! The one…
Transfiguring Adoption: How Harry Potter Helped Me Survive My Experience in Care
Growing up I was an avid reader and often used books to escape my reality, a reality that included a mentally ill, abusive mother and an absent father. In grade two our teacher started reading a book about a young boy with shaggy hair and a scar in the shape of a lighting bolt and…