Monthly Archives: September 2005

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (review)

Posted on 2005-09-28 by Benjamin Hourigan

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince (London: Bloomsbury, 2005). 7/10 I’d hotly anticipated this latest in the Harry Potter series. Even though Rowling is a poor prose stylist, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban showed that, … Continue reading →

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Two weeks in Japan (part the first)

Posted on 2005-09-16 by Benjamin Hourigan

On 31 August 2005, I left Melbourne on a Malaysia airlines flight from Melbourne to Narita airport near Tokyo, to take up a job working in Japan as an English instructor at a NOVA language school. The last two weeks … Continue reading →

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