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Well, I went and got my wristband from Barnes and Noble this morning for the release tonight. I'm supposedly in the red group, which means the first group that will be called when they start selling. My plan is to come home and read it straight through and then sleep late tomorrow. I'll be curious to see if CarpetGate was the real thing.

In other book related news, here are my latest reads.

#107 is Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books by Maureen Corrigan(July/07). This one turned out to be much more cerebral than I was anticipating. Do I buy that the detective novel became the genre that deals with work? Maybe yes, maybe no. But, the book was thought-provoking and interesting.

#108 is The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham(July/07). A rare glimpse into the world of the ultra-Orthodox Jew and what it means to be a female who wants to make her own choices in a world where all the choices are already made for you.

#109 is Maurice by E. M. Forster(July/07). I picked this one up while sorting. Forster apparently wrote it in 1913 and 1914, although it wasn't published until the early 70's. Sort of an interesting parallel to The Romance Reader in that the titular character thinks that all the decisions in his life are already made for him until he realizes that he is a practitioner of "the unspeakable vice of the Greeks" as one teacher in the book refers to it. Notable in that Forster gives Maurice a happy ending with his eventual beloved.

#110 is Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville(July/07). A YA jointly authored by two of the best in the field. A look into an evangelical sect whose leader thinks that the world will end on July 27, 2000 and takes his Believers with him to a mountaintop to await the End. Uses alternating voice chapters for the teenage lead characters to tell their story. It was a compelling story and I liked that it didn't take the easy route and depict the religious leader as a crazed, power mad individual. All of the characters were allowed more rounded and realistic.

I also took M and N to see Shrek the Third yesterday. It wasn't spectacular, but there were definitely some funny moments. The use of pop music was quite good and the disgruntled princesses were also quite entertaining.

So, who else will be midnight Harry Pottering? I still think that "Potterdammerung" is one of the funniest terms to come out of any fandom, ever. "Apotteraclypse" is also amusing, but just doesn't measure up.

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Well, I went and got my wristband from Barnes and Noble this morning for the release tonight. I'm supposedly in the red group, which means the first group that will be called when they start selling. My plan is to come home and read it straight through and then sleep late tomorrow. I'll be curious to see if CarpetGate was the real thing.

In other book related news, here are my latest reads.

#107 is Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books by Maureen Corrigan(July/07). This one turned out to be much more cerebral than I was anticipating. Do I buy that the detective novel became the genre that deals with work? Maybe yes, maybe no. But, the book was thought-provoking and interesting.

#108 is The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham(July/07). A rare glimpse into the world of the ultra-Orthodox Jew and what it means to be a female who wants to make her own choices in a world where all the choices are already made for you.

#109 is Maurice by E. M. Forster(July/07). I picked this one up while sorting. Forster apparently wrote it in 1913 and 1914, although it wasn't published until the early 70's. Sort of an interesting parallel to The Romance Reader in that the titular character thinks that all the decisions in his life are already made for him until he realizes that he is a practitioner of "the unspeakable vice of the Greeks" as one teacher in the book refers to it. Notable in that Forster gives Maurice a happy ending with his eventual beloved.

#110 is Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville(July/07). A YA jointly authored by two of the best in the field. A look into an evangelical sect whose leader thinks that the world will end on July 27, 2000 and takes his Believers with him to a mountaintop to await the End. Uses alternating voice chapters for the teenage lead characters to tell their story. It was a compelling story and I liked that it didn't take the easy route and depict the religious leader as a crazed, power mad individual. All of the characters were allowed more rounded and realistic.

I also took M and N to see Shrek the Third yesterday. It wasn't spectacular, but there were definitely some funny moments. The use of pop music was quite good and the disgruntled princesses were also quite entertaining.

So, who else will be midnight Harry Pottering? I still think that "Potterdammerung" is one of the funniest terms to come out of any fandom, ever. "Apotteraclypse" is also amusing, but just doesn't measure up.