Dear Ms. Rowling,
Thank you so much for telling your incredible story. The end was better than I could have hoped, darker than I could have feared, and courageous beyond measure. You did what you had to do, and you did so brilliantly.
Thank you for bringing Harry Potter into the world, and thank you for sharing [...]

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This is straight from today’s Woot, emphasis mine:
Spoiler-Free
As we all know, the new Harry Potter book is finally on the shelves, and the whole world is amazed at the discovery that Hermione was working for Voldemort since the third book. Another great discovery is the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220. With a 31 cubic inch [...]

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This affects every domain of mine except Hoshichan:

Blinding-Lights.net
Common-Space.net
Moon-Prism.net
Serapii-Kisu.net
Serenitatis.com
Temporal-Princess.net
ZeninPrincess.com

All email addresses at these domains (including joined fanlistings) are bouncing at the moment; I’m working with my host to resolve this. T_T; Not that pleased to have this be my first news of the morning, and week.
Still Pottering, read books 2 and 6 before starting 7 Saturday [...]

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I’m easing offline today, but my browsing has been gentle all week. I’m terrified of spoilers, so if I vanish for a few days, well, probably nobody will miss me, as I’m sure a lot of you will have your noses buried as well. I’ve just reread Sorcerer’s Stone and am about to embark on [...]

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Pre-order it NOWNOWNOW. Deluxe edition or standard edition, choose your poison. School’s out on July 21st….

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Went on a little book-orgy yesterday while out celebrating Lenneth’s birthday, picking up The Pocket Muse, Travel Writing and Pocket Rhyming Dictionary (yes, feeling the poetry bug again, after too many years of silence), as well as Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card, which I’ve been dying to read and finally can. Picked [...]

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Today’s thought-topic in the shower was my split personality, offline and online, or… well, the online is now seeping into the offline, so maybe a better way to say it would be, my real-world personality and my (Matrix-esque) residual self-image. I view myself as shy, passive, introverted, self-conscious… intelligent but never able to “prove it” [...]

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