Word: adults
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...curtain rises on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Scholastic; 759 pages), all Harry's parents and parent-figures - Sirius and Dumbledore - are dead. He's quit school, and he's got a job to do, picking up the shards of Voldemort's shattered soul. Any soft adult buffer between him and the world has been stripped away. He's riding the rims. Harry isn't having a good time anymore...
...three months later it made its first of 79 appearances on The New York Times fiction bestseller list. In 2000, The New York Times created a special bestseller list for children’s books after publishers complained that the Harry Potter series kept other, deserving adult books off the list...
...Goblet of Fire was something of a turning point, I think,” Tatar said. “A lot of adults who weren’t super enthusiastic became fans at that point—it’s not that they were jumping on the bandwagon; I think they just felt the later novels more compelling. My own reaction mirrors in many ways the critical response from adult readers...
...always have bifocal vision as an adult looking at a children’s book,” she said. “You get lost in the story, but you’re also thinking about its complexities and real-world implications of what’s being told...
...some reason, the Harvard Summer School deans thought it would be a good idea to put me in charge of 12 adult students. Not high school kids who I might actually be able to teach, or even like-minded college kids who could relate to my time at Harvard. I, a naïve, 20-year-old with little life experience and even less of an authoritative presence, am a proctor for people 25 years old and older...