Did you know that you can now read the opening five chapters of Wayfarer online for free? Well, you can. But there are only 22 days left until the book's official North American release -- and it should be trickling into stores before then, so keep your eyes open...

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In other news, I'm going to be a guest at Infinitus 2010, a gigantic Harry ( Read more... )

At present I am about as far out of HP fandom as it is possible to be without actively loathing (or, I suppose, not having read) the series, but that being said --

I have just spent half the afternoon listening to Wizard Rock and it is entirely lizbee's fault.

The last time I checked out any WR it was Harry and the Potters and I thought it was lame, ( Read more... )

You know how ( spoiler )

Gacked from the ever-wonderful fuseno8, whose links bring all the authors to her yard -- a v. interesting article about the difficulty of translating HP into Hindi. becominghuman, I thought of you:

Should You Address Prof. Snape with Respect?

And in other HP news, I am driving into Toronto today to have supper with melissaanelli! I haven't seen her in person since October 2002, ( Read more... )

Think post-DH fic, circa the Epilogue, or maybe a few years earlier ( Read more... )

Ever since I read DH I've been feeling a bit sad that ( everything in this post, pretty much, is a SPOILER )

People are asking me what I thought of Deathly Hallows, and I don't want to disappoint them, but the fact is, I feel like I need to re-read it to decide how I ultimately feel about it. Yet I have no desire to re-read it any time soon, so that makes me feel like I'd better just keep my mouth shut. In the meantime I'm afraid you'll have to put me ( Read more... )

No spoilers here, only statistics:

Start Time: 12:15 a.m.
End Time: 2:45 a.m.
Time I Actually Got To Sleep After Lying In Bed With My Mind Racing: 4:30 a.m.
Quality of Sleep: Appalling

Just for some perspective here, I'm not really a big fan of the HP movies. I don't have anything against them, and I've taken the time to see every one in the theatre so far... but I just don't get all excited about them, or normally feel any great desire to watch them more than once ( Read more... )

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