by Aseem Gupta | Jul 25, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide is one of the most unusual books attached to the Harry Potter series because it is neither a new story nor a conventional encyclopedia. Published in 2016 as part of the Pottermore Presents e-book series, it gathers short...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 24, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
The Tales of Beedle the Bard is an unusual book even by the standards of J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World. On its surface, it is a short collection of five fairy tales supposedly familiar to generations of magical children. Beneath that surface, however, Rowling...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 23, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Quidditch Through the Ages occupies an unusual place in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World. It is not a Harry Potter novel, nor does it tell a conventional story with a protagonist moving through a sequence of conflicts. Instead, Rowling takes one of the fictional...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 22, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is easy to misunderstand if approached through the later film series that borrowed its name. J.K. Rowling’s original book is not an adventure about Newt Scamander, Grindelwald, or events in 1920s New York. It is a...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 20, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Grant Cardone’s The Millionaire Booklet: How to Get Super Rich is unusually small for the size of the promise on its cover. Published in 2016, the first edition is only a few dozen pages long, and Cardone says in the preface that he wrote it in roughly two hours. Yet...
