The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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."
My money's on Hagrid. He's half-giant, after all, so that would fit the description rather nicely.
Please, god, no.
Or, only if being "half-blood prince" means Hagrid shuts up and goes away for the rest of the series. That would be a happy ending as far as I'm concerned.
</gratuitous Hagrid hate.>
In my next life, I wouldn't mind being fictional because of that stuff, Betsy.
I'm still hoping Draco turns out to be Harry's half-brother, the result of James Potter fooling around with Narcissa. Wouldn't make him half-blood, but would make him a bit more three-dimensional.
My serious Knuts, though, are on Ron going bad. And the twins need to catch a matched set of curses, preferably fatal.
Really? I love the twins (in small doses, which is how JKR uses them). And I think that Ron had his "going bad" moment back in GoF, where he got in that month-long snit over Harry being in the tournament. Unless, of course, she uses those brains he got mixed up with at the end of OotP as a device to make him wonky in the head. That'd be cool.
I'm currently re-reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I suddenly realized that in my head, the character of Hunter is ita.
When I read it a couple years ago, she was Gina Torres, but ita would be an excellent Hunter.
Unless, of course, she uses those brains he got mixed up with at the end of OotP as a device to make him wonky in the head. That'd be cool.
I really hope this happens.
Some brief half-blood info from the book's editor. (See, it has one!)
Readers responded to Longmire's spoof romance covers and submitted some of their own.
Speaking of romance covers, it's time to vote in All About Romance's annual best and worst cover poll: [link]
Two that I nominated are in there--the one with the lovely lady archer under Alternate Reality and the great ghostly denim butt in the sky under Worst.
While there I went ahead and made a nomination for best of 2005: [link] Every bookstore I go in has that one facing cover-out, often displayed prominently near the front of the store. I'm sure that's mostly because Jo Beverley is a popular and well-established author, but I'm sure the man doesn't hurt.....
The Catholic Church came out with a statement that the faithful should not read or buy The DaVinci Code. I know it's silly and hardly a great work of literature, but you'd think a two-thousand-year-old institution would have figured out the principle of "attractive evil" by now. How many people who had been ignoring it are now going to say, "Huh, I wonder what's got them so het up about this?" Plus the dependable "It must be true or they wouldn't be worried!" crowd.
I'm sure the authors are horrified at all the news stories and fuss.