My full post on the Friday-night Harry Potter parties is coming, but some pictures are up on Flickr. There’s a set for Chapters, which I stopped at from around 9:00-10:00pm, and a set for the party at the VanDusen Botanical Garden (put on by Vancouver Kidsbooks) from 11:00pm-12:30am.
In the US, Harry Potter and the Deathly [...]
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Tidbits: July 23rd 2007
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More on Harry Potter
The New York Times reviewed Deathly Hallows
JK Rowling and her publishers weren’t happy (neither was Leaky)
I don’t think anyone could say the review’s content ruined the book for them. If the New York Times obtained a copy of the book, how can you blame them for writing about it? Wouldn’t keeping quite to please a [...]
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Deathly Hallows leaked
So, I was reading the social news site Digg a minute ago. And Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is on the internet now.
Many of the sites where it was posted quickly removed it, but since hundreds of people already have it, I think there are bound to be copies floating around over the next [...]
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The Thirteenth Tale
ISBN: 978-0743298025 | Words: 129,509
Author: Diane Setterfield
I avoided this book for the longest time, despite being rather attracted to the cover, because the title and jacket text both led me to believe it was a collection of short stories wrapped in a narrative of some sort.
The Thirteenth Tale does contain stories, but they’re more like [...]
Writing, and not
I’m writing.
In fact, I’ve probably done more on my novel so far this month than in all of June, and it’s nice to see it start to come together. I’ve even been doing three or four handwritten pages in my journal every day - producing horrid crap that will never again be read is fun.
I’m [...]
The Little Friend
After Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, which I’ve read twice already and very likely will again, it’s hard to open her second novel without having expectations or making comparisons. (The average rating of this book on Amazon is down to 2.5, I think, for that reason.)
To get those out of the way, then: the [...]