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• California, Alice, and Bond… James Bond

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 130
  Not to mention E.B White , J.R.R. Tolkien , Richard Adams , L. Frank Baum , C.S. Lewis , A.A. Milne , J.K. Rowling , and H.G. Wells …. The Southern California auctioneer, Profiles in History , will be auctioning a valuable collection of children’s literature, as well as some collectibles for adults, on ...
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• C.S. Lewis and The Doctor

  
  The Hog's Head — Authority: 130
  For me, two very important events happened yesterday and today.  Yesterday, November 22, 1963, C.S. Lewis died, his death being overshadowed by the assasination of John F. Kennedy.  Aldous Huxley also died that day too.  Lewis is well known for his Chronicles of Narnia books and also for his Christian ...
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• JK Rowling’s first impressions of the original casting of the Harry Potter trio

  
  Gryffindor Gazette — Authority: 131
  Interesting bit of historical trivia here. JK Rowling wrote a letter (read in the video) praising the casting of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint as the trio of Harry, Hermione, and Ron, saying that she was absolutely confident in Chris Columbus’s choice and that they were the best actors for the ...
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• Real Life Version Of Potter’s Hogwarts Coming

  
  SciFi Pulse — Authority: 147
  The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the keenly anticipated Florida theme park, will open in the spring of 2010 and allow visitors to tour Hogwarts, buy quidditch gear and drink butterbeer, according to a press release. A 20-acre addition to its Islands of Adventure property, Universal Orlando secured the theme park ...
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• Can’t trust anyone, then

  
  Bookwitch — Authority: 129
  Not only does it seem that we can’t trust reviewers not to bore us or give too much away, but they want a little extra money for their trouble. (I can tell you that my halo feels really heavy today.) From the same source as the $25 payment for reviews I gather that we can’t expect ’staff picks’ labels in ...
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• Why Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley are the Least Romantic Literary Couple of the Age

  
  Love Romance Passion — Authority: 434
  This post was written in response to the Miami Book Examiners defense of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley as one of the five most romantic literary couples . Point One: Great literary romances develop in a believable way. The Book Examiner would have you believe that because J.K. Rowling had seven books to write ...
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• Potter-like wiz Percy Jackson is a Greek demigod

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 22 (ANI): A Hollywood version of Harry Potter has emerged in the form of a 12-year-old boy named Percy Jackson, a demigod who turns out to be the son of the Greek god Poseidon.The movie, which is rivalling JK Rowling’s, has already provoked shouts of plagiarism from Potter fans, who are upset by [...]
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• Condemnation of The Twilight Saga: New Moon makes the Vatican seem ridiculous and out of touch

  
  News Religion — Authority: 119
  Catholics tend to ignore comic news stories about the Vatican, but they are becoming worryingly prevalent – and most of them are entirely the Church’s fault. The latest one reveals that Monsignor Franco Perazzolo of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture has condemned The Twilight Saga: New Moon, part of a ...
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• Vatican no fan of ‘deviant’ Twilight

  
  Useless Place Blog — Authority: 133
  The Vatican has spoken out against the new Twilight movie that is sweeping the globe, slamming it as a deviant moral vacuum. Twilight Saga: New Moon, starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, has had sensational box office takings since opening in France and Spain ahead of its US release on Friday. Monsignor ...
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• J.K. Rowling is NOT the Messiah

  
  Mike Rouse's Diary — Authority: 420
  Far be it for me to lecture more superior people and organisations on the importance of fact-checking, but both Perez Hilton and the Daily Star are WRONG in their stories about J.K. Rowling being the new face of the Labour Party after featuring in a Party Political Broadcast. The millionairess was edited out ...
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• Booking Through Thursday: Looking Forward to Posterity

  
  Bryan's Book Blog — Authority: 129
  Well, another Thursday is upon us, and that means it is time for yet another Booking Through Thursday prompt. What will it be this week, you ask? Here you go… Prompt: Do you think any current author is of the same caliber as Dickens, Austen, Brontë, or any of the classic authors? If so, who, and ...
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• J K Rowling - Harry Potter characters sketch

  
  Children's / Fantasy Illustrations — Authority: 147
  270 by 160mm., pencil drawing, signed and dated in biro "JKRowling 1999" in lower centre, framed and glazed; together with autograph letter signed ("JKRowling") providing provenance in which the author expresses delight that the picture has "gone to such a good home", declines a lunch invitation, and hopes that one ...
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• Its in the stars ...

  
  What Kate Did Next — Authority: 108
  Do you read horoscopes? When I was at school I remember someone had a well-thumbed copy of Russel Grants Love Stars - we spent hours poring through it, seeing how compatible we all were with the boys we fancied. These days I read the stars each week in the Times, but when I was thinking about this post, I had to laugh ...
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• JK Rowling becomes new face of Labour’s working class heroes’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 19 (ANI): British author J. K. Rowling has become the new face of Labour’s “working class heroes”, in its bid to win back voters.Rowling, 44, who is the creator of the Harry Potter series, was named in a new video released on November 18 designed to show true “Brit grit”, reports the Daily [...]
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• Film News Roundup – November 2009 – Week 3

  
  (Cool) Shite on the Tube - Film, TV, Comics, Games, Books, Genre Pop Culture. — Authority: 136
  Hollywood’s Favorite Cowboy Author Cormac McCarthy, 76, talked about love, religion, his 11-year-old son, the end of the world and the movie based on his novel ‘The Road.’ He was just getting going. Novelist Cormac McCarthy shuns interviews, but he relishes conversation. Last week, the author sat down on ...
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• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

  
  Book Addiction — Authority: 420
  Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Author:  J.K. Rowling Published date:  July 2007 Publisher:  Arthur A. Levine Books Pages:  784 Genre:  Children’s/YA Fantasy Source:  Personal copy   Several months ago I made the decision to reread the entire Harry Potter series even ...
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• Encountering Harry Potter

  
  Subversive Influence — Authority: 108
  I’m just barely returned from the world of Harry Potter. Having put off reading the books for so long now, I finally gave in and picked up a couple of the books in a used bookstore. After they sat on the shelf for a month or so, I finally started reading. Of course I’ve heard many things about the books, and am ...
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• Harry Potter Audio Books

  
  Authspot — Authority: 542
                 When I first saw it in my down loader I was curious about it. “Audio book – listening instead of reading, well that would be great” – I said in my mind. So, I downloaded it and listened to it.                 It was good and I love it. A person is reading the whole ...
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• Manny Pacquiao Vs. Miguel Cotto Live Play By Play

  
  Fight Game Blog — Authority: 431
  Because of my son’s birthday party, I missed the first two fights. According to SC at Bad Left Hook , former Contender fighter Alfonso Gomez beat Jesus Soto Karass in a fight that was stopped before the end of the sixth round on a cut. From SC: Soto Karass lost two points to low blows in the third and fourth ...
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• Why Enid Blytons greatest creation was herself

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  A new drama reveals how Enid Blyton author of The Famous Five and Noddy books was a ruthless selfpromoter exploiting her own children to further her career.
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