Today kicks off the start of Banned Books Week. For more details on this topic, check out color=”blue”>Doris’s Blog. I went through color=”blue”>this list and picked out the books that I have read, and a surprising number of them are YAs. Here are the ones that I have read: Harry Potter Alice Series Bridge to …read more!

Breaking Dawn spoilers! (psst: part 1 was my guest blogger, Abbey, blogging about Snape and his sacrifices. check it out color=”blue”>here!) Where do we begin? Parents so often sacrifice so much and their children either don’t know it, don’t understand it, or don’t appreciate it enough and take it for given. There is so much …read more!

The Bean Trees Review Perhaps I shouldn’t have promised that I would start with Jo’s favorite books. Perhaps I should have acknowledged that I would read those books, but that knowing myself, I would get sidetracked by a million more in the meantime. Oops. This definitely isn’t a novel that I was planning to recommend …read more!

Hey all: As mentioned here before, my forthcoming book, Harry, A History, features a foreword by and interview with J.K. Rowling. A large portion of our lengthy interview did not make it into the book, so I’m posting interview outtakes and info on the book’s site regularly. The latest post is about the Veil at …read more!

This will have to be brief, but it’s exciting. BBC’s Radio 1 is going to broadcast live from the Tardis with DJ Chris Moyles on Friday morning. And he’ll have Russell T. Davies with him on the set, and David Tennant on the phone! *squee* Oh, and of course Equus is opening tonight in New …read more!

As readers will remember, actor Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) will be stepping onto the Broadway stage this evening with his Harry Potter co-star Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon) for the formal opening of the play “Equus.” Preview performances of the Peter Shaffer play began earlier this month at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City, which …read more!

In the past, we’ve told you about the rise in popularity of collegiate level course on the Harry Potter Series. Tonight, MTV has a new piece online, focusing on the classes being taught at Swarthmore College. In particular, one class “Battling Against Voldemort” is proving so popular, the article note that “a lottery determines who …read more!

Prepare yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, for “all the news you won’t find anywhere else” is now available at your fingertips in the September issue of “The Quibbler.” The fourth issue of our magazine has just hit the newsstands, containing the latest exclusive coverage from the 2008 WizOlympics in Beijing, the ‘Wizard Bites Dog’ scandal, the …read more!

Wizard Rock the Vote, the summerlong campaign in which volunteers helped get Potter fans registered to vote throughout the U.S., is now online. Sponsored by the HP Alliance, you can visit this page to get all the information you need to register before this fall’s elections. When you visit, scroll down and click on the …read more!

Great news Hufflepuff fans! Actress Miriam Margolyes has confirmed in a new interview that she will reprise her role as Head of Hufflepuff House and Herbology Professor Pomona Sprout for the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows films. Mandrakes Ahoy! 🙂