AmyLiz, I WILL get that book out! It's packed and labelled and everything! The past week has not got me into work (ok, I've been oversleeping!) in time to get to the post office during the day.
'Heart Of Gold'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Heh. sarameg, I already forgot about it! Not that I don't still want it, but I have been Distracto Girl this week.
I'm going to have to put in new tags for Hubby's Books and Household Books. It's weird, there are books about the house that I don't consider Mine but which aren't necessarily Hubby's but which aren't candidates for getting rid of. If I call one of the books Mine, then I get weirdly possessive. I look at the piles of Viking history and such and go "Well, that's not my book," and I haven't put them into LibraryThing. I had no idea I was such a segregationist when it came to the books.
The Chicago Tribune actually has an intermittent feature called "Potter Watch." The latest update (registration required) has a tidbit from the American publisher who's read the book and says it's "a very, very emotional book" and that he sobbed when reading it.
They also go into some of the speculation about the cover art that we've gone through here, as well as a question from an HP fan who wonders how to handle a wedding and the book release on the same day (the paper's etiquette advisor, and fellow HP fan, uses Harry's integrity as an example of how to postpone book gratification to attend the wedding and reception).
I just finished the new Kim Harrison book last night, and really liked it. And unlike Laurell K. Hamilton, Kim Harrison kills off secondary characters the main character is in a relationship with! Not to mention one of the main Big Bads. I was very surprised. Pleased, but surprised.
the American publisher who's read the book and says it's "a very, very emotional book" and that he sobbed when reading it.
HBP made me cry, when Snape killed Dumbledore.
Page 606.
HBP made me cry, when Snape killed Dumbledore
I was pretty good until Fawkes sang at the funeral. Then I lost it.
Sobbing mess, I was.
That's how Joe knew what happened.
I cried multiple times. Fawkes bit killed me dead.
I just finished "Fledgling" by Octavia E. Butler. Fun! Anthropological vampire book. Bit creepy at points, with the sexualization of the main character (who happens to be a vampire that looks like an 11-year-old girl. Um.) but generally a neat read.