J. K. Rowling's manuscript almost confiscated by airport security: [link]

J. K. Rowling's manuscript almost confiscated by airport security

Spoilers are a national threat? Or the screener was a fan and just wanted to get a look at the new book? Or lame?

Seriously, when we were headed home from London, they confiscated a ziplock bag that had about 2 dozen goldfish crackers from my 10 y.o son's carry on. Reason? "It was opened" I told them it was fine, they could have them, they were probably stale as we'd had them with us for over a week. She picked them up like they were a stinky diaper (2 finger grab) and tossed them in the trash. It was very, very strange. They also held up the line to look at some of the pictures stored on my camera (they were of Fountains Abby, no bombs or anything).

EtA: To bring this back on topic, while we were on the trip I bought and read The Time Travelers Wife because you all (especially Nilly) had had such great things to say about it. It's not usually a genre I would pick up, but MAN it was good! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Hello... I am new here. Just interested in finding some good books and in possibly having some interesting discussions about them.

On my to-read pile are: The Kite Runner (can't remember the author's name) Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire Freakonomics (again, can't remember the author's name) and I've heard a lot about The Time Traveler's Wife, too, so I am planning on reading that in the future...

I'm in the midst of planning a wedding (my own) so haven't had too much time to read lately.

The only books that come to mind from the past couple months are Singer of Souls by Adam Stemple (which I hated, but will probably end up reading the sequel out of morbid curiosity) and... Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner which was a delightful piece of fluff even though I found the ending a little too contrived (in that the heroine wasn't able to figure out who the baddie was until the optimum moment of dramatic impact, even though it was pretty obvious from about the second chapter). I have the sequel, California Demon, on hold at the library.

John M. Ford, author of Growing Up Weightless and The Final Reflection and How Much For Just the Planet, is dead. What a shame.

Aw, man.

Awww.

Savor the journey, however you're going,
It's been your whole life to get there,
Someday I'll travel, without reservations,
I hope I've two coins for my fare.

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And this: [link] Which I'd never read before.

Such a loss.

Dear Nora,

Vampires and time travel? Really?

You are lucky I love you so much.

Aimee

Speaking of vampires and time travel, I'm almost done reading the first of Nora Roberts' latest paperback trilogy, Morrigan's Cross (the second in the series comes out next Tuesday). It has a witch, a sorceror, a shape-shifter and his cousin (a potential queen, if she pulls an Arthur when she gets home and gets the sword out of the rock), and a vampire who fights his own kind (not because he has a soul, but more because he's bored) and the last addition to the group, a female slayer. Buffy gets name-checked, but as the slayer says, she's not the only one, it's a family gig. The first couple to hookup are the witch and the sorceror, and it looks like the second book will be the slayer and the shape-shifter, leaving the queen (whose mother was killed by a vampire) and the vampire for the final book.

Not bad--worth the $8 I paid when I saw the book at the grocery store last week. For those Roberts fans, like me, I'd rank it in the top third of her books, but mostly because of the vampire lore. NR is a big Buffy fan (she's had a character have sexy dreams about Spike and a vat of dark chocolate), and the Buffyverse's influence is very strong here.

It's only getting 3 1/2 stars at Amazon, and I can see why this may be for non-horror fans. This first book spends most of the time setting everything up, and the romance is a definite second thought.

That's exactly what book I was talking about.