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June 13, 2008I know you were earlier offered the chance to see the 800-word Harry Potter prequel in J.K. Rowling's very own handwriting. But honestly, that index card's kinda squinchy and hard to read, even when zoomed-in upon. To save your eyesight (and to keep you from reading the word "tuneless" as "timeless," as one Potter fansite did), a transcription follows here, on the jump. By the way, JKR says this brief, comic story is meant to have taken place about three years before Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (aka Sorcerer's Stone in the US) opened, and therefore it predates Harry's birth and the later murder of his parents, Lily and James, by Voldemort, aka "the wizard formerly known as He Who Must Not be Named."  Comments (0) Leave comment
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| E-mail entryThe entry "Sneak peek: This weekend in books" is tagged: book reviews , books Spotted on the Paper Cuts blog: Lookybook is all about picture books. And it offers parents (or anyone else) an easy way to scan the books. Just click. I can't see this replacing curling up with my kids on the couch at storytime, but it could be really handy next time I'm shopping for a gift for the nieces. Comments (0) Leave comment
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Two work in the book industry in one way or another, so it's kind of mandatory for them. The third is the only male in an all-women club, although he swears his motives are about literature, not meeting intelligent women who drink a lot of white wine that he didn't have to pay for. Which means this Shelf Awareness piece about men and book clubs seemed noteworthy to me. A telling comment from the article, from Mary Alice Gorman of Mystery Lovers Bookshop in Oakmont, Penn.: "Fact is, like it or not, men just don't share their feelings easily. Book groups often fall into discussion of how they feel about what they read. Let's face it, the shared experience of growing up to be a woman in this culture bonds these groups in a unique way and is the reason they go on for so long." Comments (1) Leave comment
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