Bit of Ivory

I love that woman.

If you haven’t seen it already, you must go to JKR.com and read the transcript from the Edinburgh Book Festival. It’s in then “news” area. Lots of wonderful stuff. Aberforth! Scar! Petunia! Snape! Portraits! Sirius! Dudley! Thestrals! Wheee!!!

And when you’re done with that, take the portkey to the Do Not Disturb door. Yes, the sign is gone again, and we have a small blurb from HBP!! I have no idea who it’s describing, but I CAN’T WAIT to find out. (For instructions on how to get to the excerpt once you open the door, go to TLC.)

In other news, I had a pretty good weekend. Lots of sleeping, lots of reading. Did a few chores. Slept a lot. Am incredibly tired today, though. Odd, that.

R.J. Anderson, at least, will be pleased to know that the vast majority of the reading I did this weekend was Laurie R. King. I’d spent 10.5 hours in front of a computer on Thursday and didn’t really feel like spending any more time in front of one, and my sisters were watching Law and Order, which I’m thoroughly sick of, so after work I went to Barnes and Noble in search of something good to read. I’d wanted to buy Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold, but I’d already read it. I wanted something new, but not fantasy– I feel like I’m getting into a bit of a speculative fiction rut. But you can’t just go pick up any old book off the shelf and expect to enjoy it. So I tried to think of books that my friends had recommended, and the King books came up first in my mind, probably because RJA posted about her recently. So I picked up The Beekeeper’s Apprentice (and Memory, too). I didn’t start reading it that night, though, because I still had to go to work tomorrow and I had a feeling I’d get too interested in it and be up all night. So I didn’t actually start it until Friday night. I finished it about 9:30 on Saturday night– just enough time to get to Barnes and Noble before it closed and pick up the next one. I ended up getting both A Monstrous Regiment of Women and O Jerusalem. Read the former over the course of Sunday. Will start the latter tonight.

So congratulations, RJA. You’ve got me hooked.