'Lessons'
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."
I just saw a panicked post on LiveJournal that nytimes.com is spoilery for HP on the front page. Here's what it says:
J.K. Rowling’s spell-binding epic ends not with modernist, Soprano-esque equivocation, but with good old-fashioned closure, writes Michiko Kakutani.
I imagine the review gets into more detail, but that doesn't seem spoilery to me.
Jesse, it doesn't to me. But then again, if you read it very literally, every book ends with closure. Ya know - closing the damn book. Har.
I heard a reference to that review on NPR this morning. I stuck my fingers in my ears and said, "lalalalalala".
And now, no more news for Abi. This slow dissociation from media is kind of entertaining..
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It's spoilery, but not outrageously so. I think I can read between the lines a little on a few of the things in it that it doesn't spell out, so I'd say read it at your own peril.
Well, sure, like most any review. I mean, they have to talk about what happens!
I read the review in full, and while there are no specific spoilers, if you are spoiler averse I would avoid it. She talks generally about themes, and mentions deaths without naming names, but in a way that fans might find spoily.
Also, she apparently bought the book by walking into a store in NYC???
Maybe she walked in and said, "I'm Michiko Kakutani."
Yes - and now that it's been on NPR and the NYTimes I'm sure that Scholastic has contacted the store about their error.
(Also, I thought professional critics got advance copies?)
In NON-HP book news: has anyone read Tasha Alexander?
I am currently reading And Only to Deceive, thoroughly enjoying it and think that others here will too. It's set in the UK (and France so far) at the end of the 19th century about a young widow.
Re early copies of HP: There's also a kerfuffle that DeepDiscount.com sent out some of their copies early (approx. 1200), and Scholastic is going to sue.
Scholastic are also begging via press release that those who receive them prior to the actual release date not open the packages. Like that's going to happen.