BJ, Spencer, and Sarah do a chapter by chapter read of the fourth Harry Potter book, Order of the Phoenix. Sarah starts us off with a Rapid-fire Recap, BJ then goes into his Wizard Wheezes, then joins Spencer for Newbie’s Notes. Sarah then purveys over the winner and loser of the chapter, followed by a […]

Pottering Around – 5.33 Fight and Flight

Pottering Around – 5.29 Career Advice

Pottering Around – 5.28 Snape’s Worst Memory

Pottering Around – 5.26 Seen and Unforseen

Pottering Around – 5.25 The Beetle at Bay

Pottering Around – 5.24 Occlumency

Pottering Around – 5.23 Christmas on the Closed Ward

Pottering Around – 5.21 The Eye of the Snake

Pottering Around – 5.19 The Lion and the Serpent

Pottering Around – 5.18 Dumbelore’s Army

Mangum Reads is a podcast aimed at reviewed and analyzing interesting short stories, novellas and novels.

Mangum Reads

Percival Everett

We take on another story about culture with a bit more weight, particularly given our ties to the south. This was a really good read for everyone and we had a quite good discussion about it. Next up: You’ll Always Have the Burden With You by Ken Liu On deck: Mono no Aware again by Ken […]

Episode 39 – The Appropriation of Cultures by Percival Everett

But I like those names, it's a good dragon name.

Pottering Around – Chapter 14 Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback

Cornelius Fudge

Pottering Around – Chapter 2.14 Cornelius Fudge

Naomi Novik

We're just going to call him the Czar now.

Episode 51 – Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik plot pt 3

Oh, so this is the riddle you've been talking about.

Pottering Around – Chapter 2.13 The Very Secret Diary

Really, Hermione doesn't know what cat hair looks like?

Pottering Around – Chapter 2.12 The Polyjuice Potion

I see your wand is a impressive as mine, now let's see how you handle it.

Pottering Around – Chapter 2.11 The Dueling Club

Carmen Maria Machado

She describes sex like JRR Tolkien does the English countryside.

Episode 46 – The Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado

Gilderoy Lockhart

I mean maybe he got the job because he's pretty?

Pottering Around – Chapter 2.6 Gilderoy Lockhart

Nick Antosca

Episode 43 – The Quiet Boy by Nick Antosca

Jiggery Pokery, a deep dive into the Supreme Court.

Pottering Around – Chapter 2.1 The Worst Birthday

Pottering Around – Chapter 16 Through the Trapdoor

Pottering Around – Chapter 12 The Mirror of Erised

Did you know that 1 in 6 wizards would have to be professional quidditch players?

Pottering Around – Chapter 11 Quidditch

Pottering Around – Chapter 10 Halloween

Alyssa Wong

Episode 36 – Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong

Emily St John Mandel

Well the twist, it wasn't really a twist, and that's ok.

Episode 33 – Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel plot

Pottering Around – Chapter 4 Keeper of the Keys

Alix E Harrow

"I am upset that the hurricane has harried the alliteration right out of you"

Episode 32 – A Witch’s Guide to Escape A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies by Alix E Harrow

In our ‘podcast within a podcast’ we are doing a chapter by chapter read of the Harry Potter books. Every episode we’ll cover one chapter with a summary, individual segments (questioning Sarah about the Wizarding World) along with a bit of a discussion about the books from a muggle perspective.

Pottering Around Chapter 3 – Letters From No-one

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