So excited--I've been waiting for this audio thing forever and it just showed up at the office. BBC Radio has a series called Eyewitness which is "a history of the twentieth century in sound" and goes decade by decade. And 1970-1979 came today! Nothing left to do but lie back and think of (Marauder-era) England. :D (And if anyone else is
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-Random House announced the audiobook version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince today. Simultaneous release with the hardcover, cassette & CD versions, read by Jim Dale again. Yay
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Utterly unanticipated and completely splurgy book purchase today: The Game of Sunken Places by M.T. Anderson.
Also-
"We continue on now to the shop where you may purchase picture postcards, commemorative plates, small plastic imitation Heathcliffs and other mementos of your visit."
Edward was obsessed with his job. Every now and then Doon would ask him how it was going, and Edward would get a feverish look in his eyes and say, "Ah! It goes by inches, young Doon. By millimeters. I've done this much"-he held his thumb and forefinger a tiny distance apart-"and this much remains to be done." He stretched his arms as far apart as
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