Happy 4th, folks! We've entered the home stretch - Harry Potter's birthday month! We're taking the holiday off of our Harry Potter blog series and will see you all bright and early next Monday, July 11 Hope you're all keeping cool and having fun today.
Midnight release party announcement of the week: So - you know all those incredibly detailed Harry Potter coloring books that have come out in the last year? Well, we're putting them to good use with a Harry Potter coloring station! (And as always, don't forget to register for the Harry Potter fanfic open mic!) Now on to today's blog post. Two weeks ago Bookseller Heather talked about how excellent it is to read Harry Potter aloud, as a family.
Midnight release party announcement of the week: We'll be having a costume competition worthy of the greatest Madame Malkin's has to offer! And don't forget to sign up for a fanfiction open mic spot!
The primary responsibility of the storyteller at the beginning of a text to establish why this entity, whether it be person, place, bowl of mush, or caterpillar, is distinguished from all other entities and/or all other examples of said entity or members of the community with which said entity identifies. Mr.
Announcement of the week: Our Harry Potter midnight release party will feature a Harry Potter-themed photobooth! Now, on to Bookseller Heather's blog post:
Being a bookseller means looking at hundreds (maybe even thousands) of book covers over the course of the year and, when you’ve been a bookseller as long as I have (which is almost twelve years now), you’re bound to develop opinions and tastes when it comes to book covers. So I started a Pinterest board to collect some of the covers that I thought were most successful. At time of writing I’ve shared my thoughts on almost 150 different book covers.
Your Harry Potter announcement of the week: Along with our Harry Potter fanfic open mic (sign up here!), we'll be having Harry Potter trivia! And now, on to today's blog post from Bookseller Sarah...
I reviewed poetry for a number of years with a few literary websites, but other time commitments have pulled me away from that reviewing. But I’m still reading poetry, writing it, and loving it, even if I’m not writing about it quite as much as I’d like to. So, to scratch my own poetry itch, here are some relatively new works of poetry that I think you should read.
Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis
Is what J. K. Rowling reveals about the Harry Potter-verse canon, or fan fiction?
Announcement of the week: Don't forget to sign up for our Harry Potter fan fiction open mic! Registration is live now!
