The Christian Science Monitor has a piece about the security measures surrounding HBP. They interview various booksellers and librarians about Scholastic’s secrecy policies, and booksellers like Russ Lawrence, of Chapter One Books in Hamilton, Montana strongly support Scholastic and their reasons for secrecy. Scholastic Inc., the book’s US publisher, has once again gone to great …read more!

MSNBC gets a little snarky about the release of HBP: A friend told me recently about an aspiring author named J.K. Rowling who has a series of books out with a recurring character named Harry Potter. I always do what I can in this space to give new scribes a little push out the door. …read more!

We’re taking another break from book news to showcase a few more reviews of Goblet of Fire; you can now find three on Aint It Cool News. The reviews, like the one we reported on yesterday contain spoilers for GoF as a film, so don’t click if you’re trying to avoid all spoilers for the …read more!

The Guardian has reported that 14 year old Owen Jones won last night’s “Quest for the Ultimate Harry Potter Fan” competition. He plans to ask JKR about her expectations for when she finishes writing the HP books.

Wizard News reported today that as soon as Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince goes on sale, Australian radio station, 97.3FM will read J.K. Rowling’s sixth book in its entirety. UPDATE: A Leaky reader from Australia called the station for more details. The reading will be outside of a bookstore in Brisbane, but will not …read more!

Joel Garreau of The Washington Post (free registration required) offers up an interesting look at the impact of Harry on today’s generation: So I found myself looking for the muse of my daughter’s generation, for its Bob Dylan — the seer who would announce to this new generation that “the times they are a-changin.’ ” …read more!

A test screening of the upcoming Goblet of Fire film took place this weekend in Chicago, and a report is now online. Posted on the Oscarwatch Forums, this cute report is somewhat detailed, and does contain some spoilers, but overall, the review has some very postitive things to say about the fourth Potter film, especially …read more!

Six days to go! Today’s LeakyLounge poll is up, and it asks you who owns, or owned (SPOILER ALERT) the ring (a picture of which Bloomsbury released awhile ago and you can see in the first post of the thread). Yesterday’s poll, “What is the underlying theme of the HP series?” is closed and it …read more!

Please excuse the somewhat personal nature of the following post, but this morning I was reading all the adds in the Sunday paper and came across one advertising the Half-Blood Prince book at the lowest price this editor has seen listed here in the US. Meijer stores are selling the book for a low $14.87, …read more!

Everyone at TLC sends our congratulations to David Thewlis and his partner Anna Friel, who welcomed their new baby girl, Gracie, into the world this weekend. Mother and Baby are reportedly doing well, and are very happy.