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shininghalf

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.

Skipping over the thesauruses (thesauri ( Read more... )

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I have something of an addiction to old books, which is why I bought an obscure mystery novel from 1929 a couple days ago.  I'd never heard of the authors or the book before (and googling them didn't make much difference), but I have old book addiction so I bought it and read it.  Card 13  was an all right story, but suffered rather from blatant ( Read more... )

So...Dumbledore was gay.  I feel like I should be pleased, but, instead, I'm irritated.  I know fandom is terribly divided over the issue, and that much of fandom is utterly unsurprised.  Hell, I'm not the world's best at spotting subtext and the whole Dumbledore/Grindlewald thing had me wondering.  But so did Sirius's fondness for James.  And I ( Read more... )