{"id":150,"date":"2007-08-02T21:55:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T01:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/08\/02\/harry-potter-links\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T16:23:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T20:23:07","slug":"harry-potter-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/08\/02\/harry-potter-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have read some great stuff in the two weeks following the HP release.  I was talking to Best Lady about it, and she thinks I should post them here.  She is not going to go look at them yet, but some of the rest of you might.<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Klein is the US &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xk7hCYHd5Hw\">Potterologist<\/a>&#8220;, she is a continuity editor at Arthur A. Levine and was a fan of the books before she was America&#8217;s biggest Secret Keeper.  She has written two major entries post release.  <a href=\"http:\/\/chavelaque.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/some-thoughts-on-deathly-hallows.html\">Some Thoughts on &#8220;Deathly Hallows&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chavelaque.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/back-to-harry-news-including-incredible.html\">Back to Harry: News (including Incredible Famousness), Thoughts, and a Theory<\/a>.  She has also written a few other HP release posts with cute pictures from the Scholastic release party.  Cheryl posted this link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news_briefs\/final_harry_potter_book\">The Onion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely JK Rowling was interviewed by Meredith Veira and there are transcripts online.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20035573\/\">Confused by Potter? Author sets record straight<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/19991430\/\">Rowling regret: Never told mom about \u2018Potter\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20026225\/\">Rowling: I wanted to kill parents<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/allday.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2007\/07\/28\/295678.aspx\">ROWLING EXPLAINS CHANGING LAST WORD IN HARRY POTTER<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/19935372\/\">Stop your sobbing! More Potter to come<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bloomsbury.com did an online chat with JKR  and the-leaky-cauldron.org posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-leaky-cauldron.org\/2007\/7\/30\/j-k-rowling-web-chat-transcript\">transcript<\/a>.  It is a little awkward to read, but it is great to get more information and to know that others have the same questions you do.<\/p>\n<p>Several bloggers that I read wrote about HP &#038; DH too.  Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/kidslitinformation.blogspot.com\/\">Big A little a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/3531841\">wrote in her goodreads review<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hipwritermama.blogspot.com\/\">HipWriterMama<\/a> wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/hipwritermama.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/writing-tip-short-study-of-harry-potter.html\">different aspects of the series<\/a>, interestingly she <a href=\"http:\/\/hipwritermama.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/true-confessions.html\">didn&#8217;t read the books<\/a> until this summer.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/\">MotherReader<\/a> took an internet break to read all of the books (again) and then wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/2007\/07\/harry-potterathon-completed.html\">reflection on all the books<\/a> and then a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/2007\/07\/deathly-hallows-kidlitosphere.html\">collection of links<\/a> to what other people have written.  I wonder if like me, she is still taking it all in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/misserinmarie.blogspot.com\">Miss Erin<\/a> is one of the youngest bloggers I read, but definitely one of the best.  She posted <a href=\"http:\/\/misserinmarie.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/harry-potter-and-midnight-release.html\">great pictures from the release party<\/a> she went to. Hey, Erin, where&#8217;s your review?<\/p>\n<p>Bookshelves of Doom (who has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop_sold.php?user_id=16236\">best t-shirts for sale<\/a>) posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com\/bookshelves_of_doom\/2007\/07\/harry-potter-an.html\">spoiler free entry<\/a>.  I missed them when she posted, but now I am going to go back and read the Boston Globe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/living\/articles\/2007\/07\/18\/harry_potter_and_the_alternate_endings\/?page=1\">alternate endings<\/a> she linked to.  She had <a href=\"http:\/\/bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com\/bookshelves_of_doom\/2007\/07\/polly-horvaths-.html\">previously linked to the NYT alternate endings<\/a>, but you can only read them if you have an account.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/blog\/1790000379.html\">Fuse #8<\/a> posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/blog\/1790000379\/post\/120012412.html\">two part review<\/a>.  Her&#8217;s was one of the most detailed reviews I read.<\/p>\n<p>My Potter obsession is not limited to the written word.  I also love listening to my favorite podcast <a href=\"http:\/\/pottercast.the-leaky-cauldron.org\/\">Pottercast<\/a> hosted by Melissa, John, and Sue.  I still haven&#8217;t listened to the follow up episodes, but I have had a great summer listening to their live casts around the country.  Melissa has written three posts following the release: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penbitten.com\/2007\/07\/potter.html\">short<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penbitten.com\/2007\/07\/one_more_thing.html\">sweet<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penbitten.com\/2007\/07\/off_topic.html\">funny<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read some great stuff in the two weeks following the HP release. I was talking to Best Lady about it, and she thinks I should post them here. She is not going to go look at them yet, but some of the rest of you might. Cheryl Klein is the US &#8220;Potterologist&#8220;, she <a href=\"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/08\/02\/harry-potter-links\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readingmaterials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}