Comments on: In with the herd, and other politics.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The midnight party sounds like it was a lot of fun.

My wife and I are 500+ pages into the new Potter – and loving every word.

By: rednikki

rednikki — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ah, I ordered my copy from Amazon, largely because I’m cheap and it was half off. My roomates are already in line to borrow it, and the Boy and I are time-sharing it. I find it to be very dark, and I’m not sure I like it.

For the record, I read Pippi Longstocking as a child (I seem to remember reading a couple of them), but I’m not sure her other stuff is even available. Also read the Paddington Bear books. And was a big fan of Edward Eager – he touched on a lot of social issues like racism, single motherhood, etc. without ever making it glaringly obvious that he was doing so. I’m not sure any of those quite map to Potter, though – I’m hard pressed to find an older one that does. However, I have an afternoon of dull data entry to come up with one!

By: Guyda

Guyda — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I also raced out and bought HP5 on the day of release, but I bought mine about 1pm GMT so you may have beaten me to it temporally – arghh! time zones, too hard to work out..
and not was Pippi a staple of my childhood, it was my nickname as I travelled through Europe as a student with my boots and pigtails (Pippi Langstrumpf(?), Pippi Calzelunghe, etc). some things never change, but maybe 30 is getting a little too old for hair in braids.