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Quiz: Happy Birthday, Harry Potter.

In honor of Harry Potter’s Birfday here’s a quiz.

Hope he’s out there in a parallel literary universe having some butterbeer with his wizard peeps or whatever it is that grown up wizards do for a birthday.

That should foreshadow my wizardly wisdom. If you’d like to confirm your suspicions check out my quiz score after the jump.

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This Week in Hollybook: March 19-21

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Starring: Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn, Devon Bostick

Based on the series by Jeff Kinney

Director: Thor Friedenthal

Official Synopsis:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid chronicles the adventures of wise-cracking pre-teen Greg Heffley, who must now survive the scariest time of his life…middle school.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Alt title: Men Who Hate Women)

Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist

Based on a novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Director: Niels Arden Opley

PBS Shows: Discuss.

When you have a child in the house you quickly become educated on the virtues and the failings of children’s television. You also get extremely nostalgic for the “good old days”–back then sponges didn’t talk or flip burgers, they only cleaned things. In the pre-Millenium days, you didn’t have cable and ran home from school to catch Bill Nye the Science Guy.


[Intro In Spanish]

Or maybe that was just me….

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