The cover for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was released today and yahoo has an interview with the illustrator, Mary Granpre.
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
sumi - Mar 08, 2005 7:16:34 am PST #7170 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 08, 2005 7:21:25 am PST #7171 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Has anyone read Smoke and Shadows, by Tanya Huff?
That sounds like something I'd normally be interested in, but the potential to conflate it with RPS in my head may keep me away. Do any really familiar personality quirks creep in?
Sheryl - Mar 08, 2005 7:30:20 am PST #7172 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Considering where the show in Smoke and Shadows is set, I'd think it maps more to Forever Knight than Angel.
Also, there's a character in the book who's based on a filker I know. (Tanya Huff auctioned off the right to have a character named after you at FilkOntario a few years ago)
Calli - Mar 08, 2005 7:32:47 am PST #7173 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Do any really familiar personality quirks creep in?
Familiar to the actors? It's hard for me to say, since I don't really follow the DB and AD stuff that closely. The character who would map onto AD is referred to as more slender than the one who would map onto DB. Neither character in the book is married, and there's been no mention of cute red-headed actresses or chicken fear in either of their lives. Also, the director, writers, and studio owners don't seem to resemble anything I've heard about the Mutant Enemy folks at all. But there are references to the characters' leather outfits in costuming. So far for me there's been just enough similarity to give me a giggle.
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2005 7:57:41 am PST #7174 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Atropa - Mar 08, 2005 9:25:03 am PST #7175 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Heh. I like this line: "Afficiandos of over school-leaving age can preserve a facade of literary respectability by investing in the adult version"
Though I must admit, having a copy with a photo of a battered copy of Advanced Potion Making on the cover would amuse me.
erikaj - Mar 08, 2005 9:29:11 am PST #7176 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
If your biggest problem is looking like a geek reading on the train(?) how much do I want that life?
Connie Neil - Mar 08, 2005 9:32:51 am PST #7177 of 10002
brillig
So . . . troubles with Snape and some battle involving Dumbledore . . . Maybe Snape's the Prince. We're still not clear on if Half-Blood=part Muggle.
Betsy HP - Mar 08, 2005 9:48:49 am PST #7178 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Snape is a Slytherin, and Slytherin is for purebloods. (Except for Tom wossname.)
Connie Neil - Mar 08, 2005 9:52:11 am PST #7179 of 10002
brillig
I find it interesting that, with Harry's mom being Muggle-born, nobody ever quibbles about Harry's lineage. And why have we never heard more about the Potters? Was his father an orphan only child from a long line of only children?