Search Results by tag: Harry Potter

Bookmarks: Generic Wizard Nights, a feline Humbert Humbert, and more

Sundry links from around the Web: The Ontario Library Association has announced the nominees for the 2010 Forest of Reading Program. Votes can be cast for your favourite authors at the OLA's website. Participants have ... Read More »

October 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

It’s witchcraft! Bush White House said no to J.K. Rowling

By Nathan Whitlock

ThinkProgress has been excerpting juicy bits from Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor, a memoir by former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer. The most recent concerns the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which, though always political ... Read More »

September 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Blackberry-hating, Harry Potterland, and flying a kite with Khaled Hosseini

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Black Swan author not a fan of Blackberries, black president The Harry Potter theme park opening next year “ finally, ordinary children get a glimpse of the fictional educational institution they would ... Read More »

September 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Frank McCourt, Yann Martel, Tom Wolfe, Harry Potter, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Frank McCourt dies at 78. Yann Martel's new novel gets a U.S. deal. Tom Wolfe says, "To the moon, America, to the moon..." Harry Potter books "very Talmudic." What's wrong with the ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Harry Potter and the Fickle Pope

By Suzanne Gardner

With the latest film adaptation of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, set to hit theatres at midnight tonight, a review in L'Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, has given the ... Read More »

July 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Harry Potter and the … Adventures of Willy the Wizard?

By Suzanne Gardner

When you're richer than the Queen, you're bound to attract some money-hunting crazies. J.K. Rowling and her publisher Bloomsbury are rejecting "unfounded, unsubstantiated, and untrue" plagiarism claims from the estate of author Adrian Jacobs, which ... Read More »

June 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Tintin, The Hobbit and Goosebumps: coming soon to a theatre near you: UPDATED

By Steven W. Beattie

The imminent end of the Harry Potter film franchise “ the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II is scheduled for release in 2011 “ has Hollywood types scurrying to secure other ... Read More »

May 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Arrr! J.K. Rowling and John Grisham fall victim to pirates

By Steven W. Beattie

Two of the planet's bestselling authors, J.K. "I'll kick Stephenie Meyer's ass" Rowling and John Grisham, are among several authors whose books have apparently been illegally uploaded to a San Francisco-based website that promotes itself ... Read More »

March 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

2008 by the numbers

By Steven W. Beattie

The world may be in the grip of a global recession, but that hasn't stopped some people from spending profligate amounts online for individual books. According to AbeBooks.com's list of most expensive books sold in ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Bookselling

Take that, Stephenie Meyer!

By Steven W. Beattie

It may not star the young wizard from Hogwarts, but J.K. Rowling's latest book, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, has become the fastest-selling title of 2008. According to Reuters (by way of the National ... Read More »

December 17, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

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Search Results by tag: Harry Potter

Bookmarks: Generic Wizard Nights, a feline Humbert Humbert, and more

It’s witchcraft! Bush White House said no to J.K. Rowling

Bookmarks: Blackberry-hating, Harry Potterland, and flying a kite with Khaled Hosseini

Bookmarks: Frank McCourt, Yann Martel, Tom Wolfe, Harry Potter, and more

Harry Potter and the Fickle Pope

Harry Potter and the … Adventures of Willy the Wizard?

Tintin, The Hobbit and Goosebumps: coming soon to a theatre near you: UPDATED

Arrr! J.K. Rowling and John Grisham fall victim to pirates

2008 by the numbers

Take that, Stephenie Meyer!

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