Harry Potter’s “flying” car stolen
London, Oct 28, (PTI):The famous “flying” car used in Harry Potter movies has been stolen, police said.
The blue Ford Anglia, whose magical properties in the movies is triggereed by a silver button on its dashboard, went missing from the South West Film Studios in St Agnes, Cornwall, on Wednesday night, they [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Harry Potter’s Flying car stolen
True Blood – new television series announced
Press Release (HBO’s True Blood):
HBO, ‘Six Feet’ creator reunite for new series
Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:59 PM ET
By Andrew Wallenstein
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – HBO has dug up a new deal with “Six Feet Under” creator Alan Ball, but this time he’s switching from the dead to the undead.
The first project covered under the two-year [...]
Book Group – November 2005
Our wonderful book group selections for November are:
Full Moon – Jim Butcher
Every Witch Way but Dead -Kim Harrison
Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
With a bit of luck some of the authors will also be joining us for these discussions!
National Read Aloud Day
Saturday, October 22
This year’s theme:
The Book That Changed My Life
New York, New York “ The National Book Foundation, which sponsors the National Book Awards, has declared Saturday, October 22 as National Read Aloud Day.
Reading great books out loud to each other is something we want to encourage people of all ages to do “ not [...]
The Quill Awards October 22, 2005 on NBC
A celebration of reader’s choices! Voting started beginning August 15, 2005. The winners are listed at the bottom of this post. There is also a discussion about the Quills award on video if you want to know more.
Want to learn more about the Quills?
WNBC anchor Jane Hanson discusses the Quills with founder and Chairman Gerry [...]
Kim Harrison
Kim Harrison, author of The Hollows series of books featuring Rachel Morgan, has joined the site to answer questions on her book Dead Witch Walking and The Good the Bad and the Undead.
The Good, the Bad and the Undead is one of our featured books for October, so if you are in that book group [...]
Charlaine Harris joins the site
We are very honoured to have Charlaine Harris join our site today! Ms Harris is the author of several series, the most recent of which is The Southern Vampire Series featuring telepathic waitress, Sookie Stackhouse.
Please make Charlaine welcome as you see her around the site. She will be answering questions and joining [...]
National Book Awards – 2005
2005 – Winners to be announced 11/16/05
FICTION
E.L. Doctorow, The March (Random House)
Mary Gaitskill, Veronica (Pantheon)
Christopher Sorrentino, Trance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Renè Steinke, Holy Skirts (William Morrow)
William T. Vollmann, Europe Central (Viking)
NONFICTION
Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Leo Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (Houghton Mifflin)
Joan Didion, The Year of [...]
Book Group Favourites 2002-2004
I guess this is a recommendation in a way. Book group members across the United States reflected on all the books they read and discussed during the year and these surfaced as the titles most often mentioned. This list represents the voices of more than 4,000 book group members who answered the survey.
The [...]
Top Book Group Favourites – these are the most discussed books at Book Groups
I guess this is a recommendation in a way. Book group members across the United States reflected on all the books they read and discussed during the year and these surfaced as the titles most often mentioned. This list represents the voices of more than 4,000 book group members who answered the survey.
The following books [...]
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- Re: Eclipse Movie March 12, 2010Yeah, we get Jasper's history with the newborns and we also get Rosalie's story about her and Royce. I saw one trailer that I forgot at the time and didn't put it up here with her telling Bella 'this wasn't the life I would have chosen for myself'. S... […]
- Re: Eclipse Movie March 12, 2010Quote from: Jerseygirl on Today at 03:11:51 PMHmm, I guess that was last year. I don't remember hearing anything about it, but then again, I don't really look for this gossip anymore.You know, Jasper is going to have a... […]
- Re: Karen Maitland - Questions for the Author - please post here March 11, 2010Hello Do you prefer writing from one POV or multiple? […]
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