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I usually love the Beloit College Mindset List, but this year it made me cross my eyes ( Read more... )

Annoyance of the day:

The Baltimore County Public Library posted its If You Liked Harry Potter, Try... list today, and it was picked up by librariansindexThe list is ENTIRELY fantasy. Lord of the Rings. His Dark Materials. Faerie Wars. The Dark is Rising. Etc ( Read more... )

One of my favorite moments of Return of the King (the movie, not the book, because the particular incident I'm talking about can't really be duplicated on paper) is seeing Minas Morgul come to life. There's a gathering tension, then a moment of silence, then an explosion with green light everywhere and marching armies of Minas Morgul baddies ( Read more... )

Well, first, writing fic is fun. It's no-stress writing (short of fest deadlines). It's my chance to experiment with different writing styles, exploring different characters, etc., without the stress of having to juggle all the balls of writing your standard novel ( Read more... )

Since everyone else is doing it...

I guess I'm the second-worst kind of Harry Potter fan there is, because I read this Washington Post article on spoilers for the books and thought, "You know what? I don't care ( Read more... )

Release date of Harry Potter 7, yadda yadda yadda.

In the squeeing over the release date, I noticed this: The retail price on this book (hardcover edition, not the deluxe, afaik) will be $34.99.

Compare this to the cover price of HBP: $29.99.

Compare those to Eldest by Christopher Paolini, which is 704 pages and retails for $21.00 ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, kennahijja and I were bemoaning the fact that both of us missed merry_smutmas signups this year, her because she has a life and me because I live in space, so I said to her one day, "Shall we do a Hijja & Cedar holiday fic exchange?" She wrote this really cool fic that I confess I have not yet had the time to finish because I still have about six books ( Read more... )

First and most importantly: Happy birthday to the brilliant, fun, and beautiful deralte.

Sigh. YA books are all about sex. Again. I missed the news because I don't get home from work until 7 p.m. on Mondays, but argh. YALSA-BK is all craziness. But a good kind of craziness. Professional-like. I think I'm just all aboggle at this big important ( Read more... )

1. Christopher Paolini, regarding your review of HBP in Entertainment Weekly, I think the only time I have ever been less impressed with your writing was when I read Eragon. Which is too bad, because you are a very sweet, kind person ( Read more... )