So Outside Magazine fielded a team in the Quidditch World Cup: [link]

Pretty entertaining.

Calli, I really liked Fish's article. My students have difficulty learning the difference between analysis and summary. What is cool in that piece is how much he touches on without really summarizing the plot at all. A great sample for those who are beginning literary analysis.

I liked what he had to say, too. I hadn't seriously thought about authenticity as a theme, but it really makes sense.

Has anyone read Night Circus by Erin Moregenstern? Loving it. Also the follow up to Wolf Hall was released and I cannot WAIT to start it.

Jilli loved it, I know, and I just started it (again -- I had once and then got distracted by something). I still need to read Wolf Hall -- S. loved it, and I miss The Tudors.

Oh, man, Amy, Wolf Hall was riveting. Easily one of the most compelling historical fictions I have ever read. Love. I even gave it to some students who loved it. She makes Thomas Cromwell so...so...rational and appealing and heroic.

I am not surprised that Jilli loved Night Circus. The first chapter just sounds like her. The book has second person chapters interspersed through that are surprisingly effective.

I love Night Circus! Magical.

I loved The Night Circus. I loved the world and hated to see it end.

I really liked Wolf Hall in the end, but I did get bogged down halfway through and set it aside for a couple of months.

I feel like I have a million books on the go right now, and can't seem to focus on any of them.

I had read the first chapter of Wolf Hall, and I was fascinated. I'm trying to finish library books right now, and I picked up Ron Rash's Serena after I saw pictures of Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper from the film. And I still want to get into the Montaray book!

Not enough time, ever. Sometimes I miss commuting (on the train) for the regular twice-a-day reading time.

I got Wolf Hall a few weeks ago, but haven't read it yet. It should be interesting: I've read a lot of fiction set during the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, but not much under Henry.

I'm on a big Dunnett binge right now, listening to the audiobooks of the Lymond Chronicles, and it's so completely absorbing that I keep taking a longer lunch than I should so I can sit in the sun and listen to the descriptions of a shipwreck in the North Sea, or reindeer-racing in the Russian Arctic. So the dog is getting a lot of walks, but I'm going to be a bit bereft when I'm done.

There's something so immediate about an audiobook, and even books I know well (like Dunnett) feel fresh and new that way, because I can't skip or skim. I hear every line (if I don't fall asleep), and I pick up so much more in the writing that way.

I forget: have I burbled about Dorothy Dunnett here?