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The Great Book Spook: Scaring up a Costume

As we all know Monday is Halloween.

Although as a I kid I would incredibly excited about the IDEA of Halloween, it just didn’t really materialize for me. Candy, yes. The rest of the experience, not so much. Read more…

Owl-maggedon.

Harry Potter wins another set of enemies.

Harry Potter book burning (Source: ala.org)

The defenders of owls…

Source: Wikimedia Commons

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Quiz: Happy Birthday, Harry Potter.

In honor of Harry Potter’s Birfday here’s a quiz.

Hope he’s out there in a parallel literary universe having some butterbeer with his wizard peeps or whatever it is that grown up wizards do for a birthday.

That should foreshadow my wizardly wisdom. If you’d like to confirm your suspicions check out my quiz score after the jump.

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Back in Action

After taking a bit of a vacation, I’m back in action.

So many things happened in the book world while I was away. Among them:

Bringing Quidditch Back. (Courtesy of Huffington Post)

Franz Kafka (Courtesy of: Getty Images via the Guardian)

or so it seems. The jury is still out on whether they can kill the book. First, it takes longer to read a book on an eReader. Secondly, licensing and multi-million dollar deals may limit eBook activity.

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Courtesy of WSJ)

and Hollywood decided to ‘remake’ the Swedish movie.

With Daniel Craig cast as one of the leads.

Craig as Blomkvist?

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