harry potter
grrlscientist | April 1, 2007I thought you might be interested to see the cover for the next, and last, Harry Potter book. It was finally released a few days ago.
Note: this is the US version of the HP cover. The UK children's and UK adult versions of the book cover are below the fold. Which is your favorite version? My favorite is the UK children's version -- why can't we have that cover here in the States, as well??
UK adult version of the cover (right).
UK children's version of the cover (lower left).
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tags: Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, books
grrlscientist | March 22, 2007As you all know, I love the Harry Potter books, so it should not surprise you to learn that I was most pleased to find out that the final Harry Potter book will be printed on recycled paper products. Recently, Scholastic Inc. said that it had agreed with the Rainforest Alliance, a conservation organization that works with the business community, on tightened environmental standards for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, coming out July 21 with a first printing of 12 million.
J.K. Rowling's seventh Potter book will be 784 pages long, Scholastic said, which is comparable to the fourth (734…
grrlscientist | February 7, 2007
JK Rowling (pictured) has been writing her phenomenal Harry Potter series for 17 years, and it will finally come to an end when her seventh and last book is released on 21 July 2007. How does she feel about that?
"I always knew that Harry's story would end with the seventh book, but saying goodbye has been just as hard as I always knew it would be," she writes.
"Even while I'm mourning, though, I feel an incredible sense of achievement. I can hardly believe that I've finally written the ending I've been planning for so many years. I've never felt such a mixture of extreme emotions in my…
grrlscientist | February 3, 2007
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Even though the new Harry Potter book won't be on the bookshelves until 21 July, its sales are already truly staggering; outselling even the Bible.
Rowling announced Thursday that "Deathly Hallows" would come out July 21. The previous six books have sold more than 325 million copies in 64 languages and broken countless sales records. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," published in 2005, had an announced first U.S. printing of 10.8 million copies and sold 6.9 million copies in its first 24 hours.
Cited story.
grrlscientist | February 1, 2007
JK Rowling, Author of the Harry Potter book series.
Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows, the last book in the popular Harry Potter book series, is due to be released on 21 July 2007, according to JK Rowling, the series' author.
Bloomsbury, her British publisher, said it would publish a children's hardback edition, and also an adult hardback, along with a special gift edition and an audio book on the same day. Scholastic Children's Books, the U.S. publisher, said it would offer a hardback edition at a suggested retail price of $34.99, a deluxe edition at $65.00 and a reinforced library…
grrlscientist | January 31, 2007Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter, will strip off his familiar eyeglasses and robes for his London stage debut next year. The 17-year-old actor, who plays the bespectacled schoolboy wizard in the Hollywood adaptations of J.K. Rowling's novels, will star as the troubled stable boy, Alan Strang, in Peter Shaffer's "Equus."
The play delves into the psyche of Strang who blinds six horses with a metal spike. In another scene, Strang is required to simulate sexual ecstasy while riding a horse naked. But Davies said nudity was not the focus of the play. The production is scheduled to open…
grrlscientist | January 20, 2007
Well, I finally have something to look forward to; the movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be released on 13 July, 2007.
In the film, Harry returns for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts and discovers that much of the wizarding community has been denied the truth about the teenager's recent encounter with the evil Lord Voldemort. Fearing that Hogwarts' venerable Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is lying about Voldemort's return in order to undermine his power and take his job, the Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, appoints a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher to…
grrlscientist | December 21, 2006
JK Rowling, author of the popular Harry Potter series, released the name of the seventh and last book in the series today. To learn the name of the book, you must go to her site and play a game of hangman.
Rowling's U.S. publisher, Scholastic Inc., released a brief statement Thursday announcing the name of the world's most anticipated children's book, the finale to her phenomenally popular fantasy series.
No publication date or other details were offered. Rowling is still working on the book, she explained on her Web site in an entry posted early Thursday.
''I'm now writing scenes that…
grrlscientist | December 17, 2006It's been a rough week. I stopped taking Zyprexa a few days ago due to its expense, and went through some sort of withdrawal yesterday which nearly caused me to faint on several occasions. I also was unable to carry things in my hands. Additionally, I was wide awake all last night, wired, no doubt at the beginning of a manic or hypomanic episode, or perhaps another one of my mixed states.
Since I couldn't sleep anyway, I watched all the Harry Potter films in sequence. I've always wanted to do this, although not under these circumstances.
Not that this is particularly interesting to anyone…
grrlscientist | June 27, 2006JK Rowling (pictured), the author of the successful Harry Potter series of books, says that, even though she has not finished the last book yet, she is "well into it now." When asked how she felt about Book Seven when she gave a reading at Buckingham Palace in honor of the Queen's 80th birthday, she said, "I am feeling sad as it is the last one. But so far, so good." When asked about the book's progress, she said, "I'm doing well I think. You can never really tell till you get near the end. I am not quite there yet."
Unfortunately, the upcoming Harry Potter book, the last in the series, looks…
grrlscientist | May 22, 2006tags: dinosaur, fossil, Children's Museum of Indianapolis, pachycephalosaur, Dracorex hogwartsia, Harry Potter
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Dracorex hogwartsia,
a newly discovered member of the pachycephalosaur family of dinosaurs.
Image: Drawing by paleontologist Robert Bakker, provided by the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
It was only a few years ago when JK Rowling was just another single mother who was on the dole, sitting in a coffee shop, scribbling stories on napkins and spare pieces of paper, and now, she is the richest woman in the UK and has a dinosaur named in honor of her imaginary world. Heyyy,…
grrlscientist | April 7, 2006JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, recently wrote on her website that she worries about her daughters growing up in a "skinny-obsessed world", stating that she doesn't want them to grow up to become "empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones."
"Let my girls be Hermiones," she declared, referring to the brainy female character from the Harry Potter novels.
Rowling has two daughters, Mackenzie, age 1, and Jessica, age 12.
I think Rowling has gone a long way towards making it easier for girls to break out from rigid social stereotypes by creating her character, Hermione.…