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Harry Potter arrives early

July
19

I guess this was bound to happen — and late last night online it did.

Details of the latest Harry Potter are out, thanks to The New York Times and the Baltimore Sun.

Actually, I’m a bit shocked. Really, I am.

But it puts bookselling today into perspective. Harry Potter has been hailed as the biggest reading and publishing phenomena in years. While I am not a Harry Potter fan myself, I totally appreciate that Rowling has charmed children and teens and made tons of them book lovers. Adults, too. The sad part is that it is just business and about selling a product with as much hype as possible.

Today, the Times published a review of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows� by staff critic Michiko Kakutani. It appeared on the paper’s online version last night and is also on its International Herald Tribune edition. The paper has said it bought a copy of the book in a New York City store on Wednesday. It had been embargoed until its release at 12:01 a.m. July 21. Parties and events are scheduled throughout the region.

For me, all the excitement made me think I should take another look at Harry Potter tales. I have planned to read about wizards and muggles. So, I’m going wait on reading any reviews because I like to find certain things out for myself.

Can you believe the Times ran an early review of Potter?
Did you read it? Are you going to? Has this spoiled any of the excitement?

Has anyone in our LoHud region gotten his or her hands on an early copy?

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 19th, 2007 at 3:23 pm by Barbara Nackman.
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2 Responses to “Harry Potter arrives early”

  1. Teach

    I’m horrified the Times would do that. I plan on avoiding everything and everybody until I finish reading it for myself, because every single time a new book has come out in the series, someone takes incredible pleasure at ruining the ending for others. Some people just bite.

  2. Boymndymn

    There’s one special secret Sale link on Amazon:

    http://tinyurl.com/2r7ldr

    This is open every Friday and ONLY on Fridays!

    You can find very good discounts here, although some Fridays you can really get
    lucky and make off like an Amazon bandit – I´ve seen discounts there as low as 75%
    off sticker Price.

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Four longtime Journal News reporters share their insights about fiction, non-fiction, poetry and short stories by bringing books discussions online and exploring the local literati scene. Lots of people say they are booklovers, but Elizabeth Ganga, Barbara Livingston Nackman, Ken Valenti and Randi Weiner really are!


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Book Notes: An ongoing chat about events, authors and news items about books, libraries, authors and everything literary from metro news reporters Barbara Livingston Nackman and Elizabeth Ganga. Barbara has been a reporter for The Journal News since 1997. She covers municipalities in Putnam County and keeps track of book events everywhere - and began her career writing about books and libraries. Lisa has been a reporter for The Journal News since 2000, after working at several newspapers in Connecticut. She has covered cities and town in sourthern and northern Westchester and is a big Jane Austen fan (though she reads everything from history to mysteries). Both reporters work out of the Mount Kisco bureau and frequently trade tidbits about books and events.


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