'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Please, no matter how much you miss the boy, let the series end.
ITA. Although, I wouldn't mind if she'd follow up on a half-baked thought she had during one of her interviews that, after Book 7, she might do an Encyclopedia of Harry Potter and flesh out all the backstory that she was unable to shoehorn into the books.
Like what happened to Harry's grand-parents, etc. Heck, she could do oodles of stuff with the Founders.
I'm almost tempted to suggest that she should write a prequel series-- either with Hogwary's Founders, or MWP&P-- but then I wonder if we mightn't end up with midiclorians something dire, and I come back round to the saying she should let it end.
That's what I like about the encyclopedia approach--she'll be able to present the details that she's worked on for over a decade now without having to pull it together with a connecting plot.
an Encyclopedia of Harry Potter and flesh out all the backstory that she was unable to shoehorn into the books.
That would be very neat. Like LotR's appendices.
My favorite part of this holiday: going to the day-after-Christmas sales, and finding that the bookstore in the mall was going out of business and everything was half off! So I bought as many books as I thought I could fit in my luggage (10, only...two?...of which I've read before. But I've read...4 more, now)
and finding that the bookstore in the mall was going out of business and everything was half off!
Was it a WaldenBooks? Because the nearby one is doing the same thing. I almost cried when I saw three Calvin & Hobbes collected works at half price.
I wish they would do that down here. There is a hardcover collection of the first year of "Runaways" that I am mooning over.
B. Dalton down in my neck of the woods did that also.
I only read one book over the holiday: a mystery set in Chinese-occupied Tibet, called Water Touching Stone by Eliot Pattison. Good stuff, with lots of cultural, political, and historical detail, tons of characters, and possibly too much plot. It ended up being very moving, although it took about 450 pages to get there. Particularly interesting for its portrayal of Tibetan religion and how the Chinese government may be attempting to manipulate it for political purposes.