{"id":7219,"date":"2010-07-14T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=7219"},"modified":"2010-06-16T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:11:10","slug":"books-on-cd-the-harry-potter-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/books-on-cd-the-harry-potter-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on CD &#8211; The Harry Potter series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Harry-Potter-and-the-Deathly-Hallows.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Harry-Potter-and-the-Deathly-Hallows1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocn155847085&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Harry-Potter-and-the-Deathly-Hallows2.jpg?resize=196%2C219&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a>Every day, I have to drive across the bridge to get to work and back home.\u00a0 Inevitably, cars are backed up for miles and I end up idling on I-74 for long periods of time.\u00a0 Luckily, I always have an audiobook in my glove compartment for just such an occasion, and the ones that I come back to most often are the Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling.\u00a0\u00a0My personal favorite\u00a0of the audio series is\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocn155847085&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For an audiobook, the most important thing to have is a good narrator, and Jim Dale is one of the best.\u00a0 He has won countless awards for his vocal portrayals of Harry, Hermione, Ron, and the rest of the Hogwarts gang.\u00a0 Even if this is your fifth time hearing the story, Dale manages to evoke such excitement into his presentation of the text that it feels like a whole new experience.\u00a0 You feel as though you are there at Hogwarts carrying on a conversation with your fellow Gryffindors.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite to listen to has to be <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocn155847085&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Jim Dale gets everything right, from the light moments to the dramatic.\u00a0 I have found myself more than once having to pause the CD so that I wouldn&#8217;t be driving and crying over the climactic battle scenes\u00a0 at the same time.\u00a0 I highly recommend this series, or any other audiobook read by the fantastic Jim Dale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, I have to drive across the bridge to get to work and back home.\u00a0 Inevitably, cars are backed up for miles and I end up idling on I-74 for long periods of time.\u00a0 Luckily, I always have an audiobook in my glove compartment for just such an occasion,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/books-on-cd-the-harry-potter-series\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,1,8],"tags":[126,673,1248,1249],"class_list":["post-7219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-books-on-cd","tag-harry-potter","tag-sound-recordings","tag-wizards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1Sr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7308,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions\/7308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}