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samuel mehr @mehr.nz

Gorgeous, is this in the new Yorker? Don't think I've read

aug 31, 2025, 7:48 am • 1 0

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz

As a kid a family friend wrote for the Times book review and she asked me whether I'd read Harry Potter. I told her I didn't make it through the first book and that if she liked fantasy she should try Philip Pullman So she published a piece on the Golden Compass called "Harry Potter for Grown-ups"

aug 31, 2025, 7:49 am • 1 0 • view
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz

www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/b...

aug 31, 2025, 7:54 am • 1 0 • view
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social

🙏

aug 31, 2025, 7:56 am • 0 0 • view
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social

Yeah that one really is the standout of that era of YA fantasy imo

aug 31, 2025, 7:55 am • 1 0 • view
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz

I adored those books as a teenager I should reread

aug 31, 2025, 7:56 am • 0 0 • view
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social

Same, I think I read them a bit too young and lost the plot a bit around book 3

aug 31, 2025, 8:05 am • 2 0 • view
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social

I found it here, originally from a publishing coop she was involved in from 2010 I guess

aug 31, 2025, 7:53 am • 1 0 • view
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz

This is great thx!!

aug 31, 2025, 7:59 am • 0 0 • view