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Harry Potter VI at last!
I have to admit that I’m about as excited about the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as I’ve been about any new movie since, well, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. While I’m...
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Harry Potter: The Boy Who… umm… Drank?
The New York Times has an article on concerns about drinking in the new Harry Potter film. In a story where potion-making, -drinking, and -sneaking becomes central to the story line – from the liquid...
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Gay Vampire Boyfriends
In the latest issue of Esquire, columnist Stephen Marche offers an intriguing take on the current vampire craze. In “What’s Really Going on With All These Vampires,” Marche proposes that the vampire...
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Leviathan!
I snagged Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan the minute it dropped. (Simon Pulse, ISBN: 9781416971733) I was out in Massachusetts on a research fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society and didn’t have...
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Some Books Are to Be Tasted
In Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart, the plaque on the door to Mo’s bookbinding workshop bears the legend: Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly....
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Bad Moon Rising
I went to New Moon last night with my friend Becky. She’s a better blogger than I am, a sincere and unrepentant feminist, and a YA lit fan. She’s also my chosen movie companion, joining me for Where...
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Percy Jackson
The film of Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief opens on Friday. I’m looking forward to it. Rick Riordan’s books did for Greek myth what Harry Potter did for the wizarding world. But...
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Twilight the Graphic Novel Redux
This week saw the release of both the New Moon DVD and the Twilight graphic novel. Whoo hoo. I somewhat shamefacedly purchased the DVD (at the same time, I bought Where the Wild Things Are to maintain...
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How to Train Your Dragon and the Question of the Animal
Let’s just get it out of the way right now that I really enjoyed How To Train Your Dragon. I’m always anxious about Dreamworks’ animated features – Kung Fu Panda was thoroughly enjoyable, the Shrek...
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Upcoming Smeyer
The unstoppable Smeyer machine keeps chugging along: a new novella, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner drops 5 June, just before the release of Eclipse in theaters. Here’s the deets over at B&N....
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