Travis Prinzi

A collection of essays about Harry Potter. A mixed bag. John Granger's and J. Steve Lee's essays on the structure of the books and the series were very good. A fair number of the others were pretty interesting. A few were nigh on incomprehensible. A number of these seem to suffer from not answering fully enough what conclusions their observations lead to. Definitely hit and miss, though some of the hits are dang near worth the price of the book.

Strong collection - some essays appealed more than others but I wouldn't condemn the others any more than to say they just weren't my cup of tea

Two outstanding examples from this book are Amy H. Sturgis's "When Harry Met Faerie: Rowling's Hogwarts, Tolkien's Fairy-Stories, and the Question of Readership" and Ryan Kerr's "Tom Riddle's Diary: How We Read Books

Amazing. I got this through interlibrary loan just incase it wasn't something I'd want to reread more than once, but I am certainly buying this one to reread!