Since you've finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows what's next?

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Well I read Harry Potter book 7 and I felt it was decent over all (my only contentions were - that I’m slightly uncomfortable w/ horcruxes, and Sirius’ posters) now I just need something else to read. So I decided to start this thread so that when you casually discuss your next great read I can get some ideas. 😃 I know very cunning.

I guess I’ll start the thread by offering one book that seemed sort of interesting, but which I’m not sure of (it seems to be slightly below my reading level). It’s called “Here, there be dragons” or something to that effect. It is pure fantasy with the main characters apparently leaving earth during World War I to discover all the magical islands and continents that never were. I might still get it…

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I’m currenly reading Inkspell. It’s the sequel to Inkheart. If you haven’t read it I recommend that you do. Very well written and the story is very original.
I’ve also been reading Crime and Punishment. I can’t read that one just on it’s own. It’s really dark and somewhat disturbing, but very good all the same.
After those two I plan on reading some Jane Austen books.
 
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I’m currenly reading Inkspell. It’s the sequel to Inkheart. If you haven’t read it I recommend that you do. Very well written and the story is very original.
I’ve also been reading Crime and Punishment. I can’t read that one just on it’s own. It’s really dark and somewhat disturbing, but very good all the same.
After those two I plan on reading some Jane Austen books.
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Me too. for every Secular book i read i try to make the next one a spiritual or reglious book. I am reading Kimberly Hahn’s “Life giving love” and have a book on the role of religion, non-violence showing of people’s faith and how it led to the fall of communism. It by Barbara Elliot- i have heard her talk and she is amazing.
 
child_of_God85 said:
I’m currenly reading Inkspell. It’s the sequel to Inkheart. If you haven’t read it I recommend that you do. Very well written and the story is very original.
I’ve also been reading Crime and Punishment. I can’t read that one just on it’s own. It’s really dark and somewhat disturbing, but very good all the same.
After those two I plan on reading some Jane Austen books.
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I thought I heard someone talking about those books at my parish. They said that the basic plot was that this girl’s father imagined the characters of a book so well that they came to life, and that some people tried to kidnap him. The person said that when she asked her daughter what she thought she said, that “she said that she kept thinking that it was going to get better, but it never did” (or something to that effect) and that it was really dark. Maybe this isn’t the book your are talking about - but that’s what I’ve been lead to believe it is about.

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Catholig said:
I thought I heard someone talking about those books at my parish. They said that the basic plot was that this girl’s father imagined the characters of a book so well that they came to life, and that some people tried to kidnap him. The person said that when she asked her daughter what she thought she said, that “she said that she kept thinking that it was going to get better, but it never did” (or something to that effect) and that it was really dark. Maybe this isn’t the book your are talking about - but that’s what I’ve been lead to believe it is about.

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Tha is the book I’m talking about. I think it depends on the age of the child reading the book. I can imagine for some children it would be a more difficult read, more so than Harry Potter. It is a bit dark, but not on the lines of Harry Potter.
It’s a hard book to categorize to be honest. I can sory of see where it’s called a childrens book. there isn’t anything objectionable about the content, the story between the father and daughter is very touching. But in my opinion, over all it’s a book adults would enjoy more. Before the start of each chapter she qotes a line from famouse books. She’s even quoted Shakespear. The writing style is more mature, and it isn’t action packed like a lot of fantasy, so kids might have a hard time getting into the story. But I found it to be a wonderful and enchanting story.
 
I’m always reading and never confine myself to just one genre. Right now I am reading Twilight of Splendor by Greg King which is about Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee year and Dead Wrong, a mystery by J.A. Jance.

I read over 200 books a year.
 
Biblioassistant said:
I’m always reading and never confine myself to just one genre. Right now I am reading Twilight of Splendor by Greg King which is about Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee year and Dead Wrong, a mystery by J.A. Jance.
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I read over 200 books a year.*
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That’s pretty good - I’ve never read 200 books in a year (I don’t think).

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I think I’m going to get back to my spiritual reading. I’m debating between Story of a Soul, The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, or* True Devotion to Mary. *Can’t decide which right now. Probably Story of a Soul since I’m about to start classes again.
 
Harry Potter got me back into fiction reading…I’ve done Jane Austen’s books so now I want to start reading Charles Dickens.
 
Tonks40 said:
I really have to get back to my spiritual readings!
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Same here! I was reading Dr. Alan Shreck’s Essential Catholic Catechism, but I can’t find it! ARGH!

If I ever do find it, I’ll finish it off, then I suppose I’ll try to read The Physics of Superheroes (although I’ll more than likely never get to it seeing as move-in day at Loyola is only a week away 🤷 ).
 
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