Book #18 & 19

[lavenderspark]

I am still reading Dracula, but it's on my Kindle and I've discovered that if I read on it too long, it gives me a headache. :(

So I've read a couple books while reading it.

I read
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the summer after Harry’s first year at Hogwarts has been his worst summer ever… the Dursleys more distant and horrible than ever before. But just as he’s packing his bags to return to school, a creature named Dobby the house-elf announces that if Harry goes back to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.
And it turns out, Dobby is right. Harry and Ron miss the Hogwarts Express, so they fly to school in a blue Ford Anglia, crash landing in the notorious Whomping Willow. Soon other worries accumulate: the outrageously stuck-up new professor Gilderoy Lockhart; a ghost named Moaning Myrtle, who haunts the girls' bathroom; the strange behavior of Ron's little sister, Ginny Weasley; rumors about the "Chamber of Secrets," a cavern buried deep below Hogwarts; and a magical diary owned by Tom Riddle, a Hogwarts student of long ago.
Harry is also shocked to discover that he can speak Parseltongue, the language of snakes - a rare ability that Lord Voldemort also possessed - and that anti-Muggle prejudice exists in the Wizarding world, even affecting Harry's friend Hermione.
But all of these seem like minor concerns when someone starts turning Hogwarts students to stone: an evildoer said to be the fearsome Heir of Salazar Slytherin, on of the founders of the school. Could it be Draco Malfoy, Harry's most poisonous rival? Could it be Hagrid whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one person everyone at Hogwarts most suspects: Harry Potter himself? a while ago. I've seen all the movies and this was pretty similar. There were some minor differences, but not many. I keep expecting them to be different since everyone who read them says the movies got some things wrong.

During the hurricane, I started On a September evening eleven years ago, two 17-year-old girls vanished without a trace from the tiny village of Altenhain, just outside Frankfurt. In a trial based on circumstantial evidence 20-year-old Tobias Sartorius was convicted and imprisoned for the murder of his childhood friend Laura and his beautiful girlfriend Stefanie - otherwise known as Snow White.

After serving his sentence, Tobias returns home. Then history starts to repeat itself in a disastrous manner when another pretty girl goes missing. The police are thrown into a race against time. Will they be able to save her, or is she destined to die?. I finished it last night. It was good. Took some getting used to since it takes place in Germany and I'm not familiar with the cities it was referencing. I don't know if they're real cities or not. A couple I knew, but it takes place in a small town and I'm not sure if that's real or the author made it up. It also jumps from character to character with no real break, that was confusing at first. And there was a LOT going on. Main story and side stores, lots to keep straight. But I enjoyed it.

Comments

[tinny]

The first HP movie was very similar, but it was the easiest, because the book was the shortest, too. The other ones cut more and change more than that first one did.

[lavenderspark.livejournal.com]

I don't remember anything massively different in Chamber (book 2).

Just some minor things that don't change the main story.

Filch is trying to learn magic, Headless Nick's party, and the boring teacher.

But this book was short too, so I'm sure as the books get longer there will be more cut, like you said.