Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp

From Puddlemere United to the Chudley Cannons, this wizarding library essential tells it all. If you have not learned enough on how to play the simple game of Quidditch, then this book is certainly for you, the Viktor Krum of tomorrow. Kennilworthy Whisp explains in detail the art of playing this popular wizarding sport, from its first game in Queerditch Marsh, to mishaps of more modern Quidditch matches. Not only does it talk of Quidditch, though it also talks of other broom games, such as Stichstock, Aingingein, Creaothceann, and Swivenhodge. It also talks of the Golden Snidget, an extremely endangered bird replaced by the Golden Snitch for humane reasons.

If you are wondering if this book is truly worth your time, then look at the Praise that it recieved from Rita Skeeter. She said:

"I've read worse."

She would never say anything that polite about a book if it isn't good. This book explains Quidditch much more in depth than the Muggle J.K. Rowling ever did, knowledge of Quidditch coming only from a leaked Quibbler article that Jo found. My overall scoop: If you are like me, and you like books that explain sports that involve brooms, then a ten out of ten. Though if you are too caught up in your Muggle heritage to care, then a negative one hundred thirty seven and a half out of ten. If that is the case, then please stop disgracing my work, and start reading about ponies, soccer, and other Muggle things of the sort.

The End By Lemony Snicket

Lemony, Lemony, Lemony. For years now, Lemony Snicket has become one of the more famous (or as he may put it: infamous) writers of today. It was with a heavy, yet somewhat light heart that I finished a series that I quite despise, yet love at the same time. The thirteenth book in the Series of Unfortunate Events, the Baudelaire children; Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, along with Count Olaf are stuck at sea in a boat that the Count has named Count Olaf. The only things that they have are each other and a deadly fungus named Medusoid Mycellium in a figurehead. The children and Count are about to give up hope when they land on a supposedly deserted island. They soon find that they are not the only people there. They find the people on the island who follow a little too close behind their facilitator called Ishmael. Ishmael rules over not just the people of the island, though also their minds by saying " I won't force you, though I would really like it if..." By doing this, the islanders are not able to act upon their own free wills. Through a series of complicated and unfortunate events, the orphans find that their parents once lived on the island, that Ishmael is slightly evil, and that the horseradish in a hybrid apple tree will counteract the Medusoid Mycellium. In the end, the deadly fungus is released into the lungs of the islanders, the islanders sail away, with Ishmael full of apples, the Baudelaires save themselves with the apples, Count Olaf dies, Kit Snicket ( a relative of Lemony's) gives birth, and the orphans continue to live on the island with the new Beatrice Baudelaire II.

If you enjoy misery, pain, misery, laughter, misery, dry humor, and misery, then this is certainly the book for you. Lemony Snicket's clever use of humor, and social satire will certainly blow you away. The sarcasm and dry, sometimes metaphorical humor show off his insane ability to write novels, no matter how miserable and unfortunate they are. My overall scoop: DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling

This is possibly the most written about book blog topic ever, though I have found it in my heart to go with the crowd on this one.

In the end of the epic tale of Harry Potter, this teenage hero must, in quoting Dumbledore, choose between what is right, and what is easy. This year, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are not attending Hogwarts, but are completing the monumental task of destroying the Dark Lord Voldemort's horcruxes, and defeating him once and for all. Years before Voldemort was unsuccessful in killing Harry, he preserved his soul in seven horcruxes in order to gain almost immortality. Dumbledore knew this, and right before he was killed by Severus Snape, he told Harry that he was to hunt down and destroy these.

Though Voldemort was reading his children's stories, and while reading Tales of the Beetle and the Bard, he came across the tale of the Deathly Hallows. He then realized that in order to truly defeat death, he had to obtain these three hallows. Through a series of complicated events, Harry, Ron, and Hermione destroy five of the horcruxes, learn about the Deathly Hallows from Luna Lovegood's father, Xenophilius, travel to Hogwarts, fight against the Dark Lord, and, well I wouldn't want to spoil it.

Even if you don't like the idea of Harry Potter, I would still highly recommend reading this book just to see the style in which Jo Rowling writes. Throughout this book you see things hidden that you may skip over. Such as Xenophilius, which relates to xenophilia, which means brotherly love to people you do not know. Also Voldemort whose name (and Jo did not know this when writing the books) is French for flight of death. There are many other relations to Old English, poetry, Greek and Roman mythology, and high thrills in this book. My overall scoop: This is a ten out of ten on the must read scale.