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Entertainment Weekly recently had a bracket to find the Best Young Adult Novel of All Tine and the Harry Potter series was voted the Best! The series was first pitted against Holes by Louis Sachar, next up was The Giver Quartet series by Lois Lowry followed by Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card and it beat The Princess Bride by William Goldman (which happens to be a favorite of mine – because of the movie I read the book.) The final book it had to defeat was To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.
But after winning another decisive victory over Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower in the bracket’s Final Four, TFiOS hit a wall. In the end, there was really no contest: John Green’s book won just over a third of the final vote; the rest went to J.K. Rowling’s masterpiece.
Why? For that answer, we’ll have to turn to a rather unlikely source: John Green himself, who wrote on his Tumblr that his own final vote “obviously” went to Harry Potter. His explanation: “HP is the most important story for a generation of readers and is one of the central reasons that my career even exists, so it’s a bit silly even to be in the ring with it here at the end.”
With that, Green just about sums things up. The Fault in Our Stars is a great book. But to millions and millions of people — old, young, anywhere in between — Harry Potter is more than that: It’s a cultural beacon, a secular religion, a way of life. And a full six years after the final book in the series was published (and two years after the final film adaptation’s release), the saga’s impact has hardly diminished. There’s simply nothing else like Harry, and there may never be anything like him again — despite the best efforts of publishing houses and movie studios alike.
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The sample sale website Gilt, is having a Juniper Books flash sale until Saturday. The sale includes custom made Harry Potter book sets inspired by each of the 4 Hogwarts Houses! Sign up for Gilt now to purchase a gift set for yourself or a family member (once you sign up go to the “Home” section!) A description of the sets is as follows:
A complete hardcover set of Harry Potter books in custom book jackets. All seven books in the series has custom book jackets made to look like antique gold and red leather bindings inspired by the Gryffindor colors [and corresponding colors for the other houses.]
Thatcher Wine is the founder of Juniper Books and inventor of custom book jackets. Each book set is personally curated by Thatcher in coordination with the publishers.
Includes:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Material: Paper
Care: Dust with a dry cloth
Brand: Juniper Books LLC
Origin: United States
   
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It has just been announced that J.K. Rowling will be writing the screenplay for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as part of a new creative partnership with Warner Bros. Fantastic Beasts is going to be part of a series as well as a new video game, consumer products and integrated into their digital initiatives businesses. Of the screenplay Rowling said:
Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for seventeen years, ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world. The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films, but Newt’s story will start in New York, seventy years before Harry’s gets underway.
Warner Bros will also be the distributor for the BBC series “The Casual Vacancy,” based on her best-selling first novel aimed at adult audiences. The miniseries begins production in 2014. The full press release may be read by clicking more.
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Early this morning (Sept 3rd,) Bloomsbury released the new Adult cover for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. All the new covers, US and UK, may be seen in our gallery!
As a quick recap: The first three books were available 18th July 2013. The next two have been be available since 15th August 2013 and the final two will be released on 26th September 2013. A boxed set containing all seven jackets will be available in October 2013.
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Bloomsbury, the UK publishers of the Harry Potter books, have released the new cover for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Over the past few months they have been rereleasing the UK Adult books with these new sketched covers by Andrew Davidson.
The first three books were available 18th July 2013. The next two have been be available since 15th August 2013 and the final two will be released on 26th September 2013. A boxed set containing all seven jackets will be available in October 2013.
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This morning, J.K. Rowling appeared on Good Morning America to celebrate 15 years since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released. A piece of the interview has been posted on GMA’s website and she talks about Dumbledore and meeting him in real life.
“Of all the other characters in the Harry Potter series, he’s the one I miss the most,” Rowling said. “I feel like I wrote Dumbledore from the back of my head. Sometimes he said things and told Harry things that I only knew I knew or believed until … I saw that I had written them down in the voice of Dumbledore,” Rowling said. “He was the character who was hardest to leave for me. He was the person who I’d have come back physically and sit and talk to me. It would be Dumbledore.”
“I’m afraid I’m going to be very selfish, and if anyone gets a shot, it’s me,” she said with a laugh. “It’s a difficult question and I have mulled it over at length, and I’ve considered world leaders who may benefit from some of his calm wisdom, but finally decided there’s really only one person who should meet Dumbledore and I think that’s me – because, of all the other characters in the Harry Potter series, he’s the one I miss the most.”
Remember, you can order the new Harry Potter 7 book boxed set with art by Kazu Kibuishi on Amazon today! Links for the individual books are below:
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