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Still wild about Harry
If only there was a spell to fight the "dark art" of sleep deprivation. Hundreds of Harry Potter fans of all ages - some costumed - waited late into the night Friday at Lawrence bookstores for the midnight release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," J.K. Rowling's latest novel about the orphaned wizard. Many readers were expected to dive into the novel immediately upon purchase and keep reading until dawn.
- Library Top 10
- July 6, 2009
- Here are the top-10 most-requested books at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt., for the week of June 23 through June 29.
- Lifetime battle: From FDR to Obama, a fight for health care
- July 5, 2009
- As Congress takes on President Obama’s call for overhauling health care, the desire for change will be tested — by the expense, by politics, by resistance and by the general fear by some of “socialized medicine.”
- Poet’s Showcase: My vision of soul?
- July 5, 2009
- Weekly poet’s showcase.
- Book examines worries
- July 5, 2009
- Worry.
- ‘Twitterature’ sums up classic books
- July 5, 2009
- Did you struggle to make it past page 20 of “Moby Dick”?
- Best-sellers
- July 5, 2009
- A list of best-selling books.
- Review Susie Boyt offers fresh take on fandom and fantasy
- July 5, 2009
- Many a celebrity biographer is really a rabid fan hiding behind reams of research, smothering the reader in unprocessed minutiae. It’s refreshing then that Susie Boyt — novelist, daughter of Lucian Freud, great-granddaughter of Sigmund and Judy Garland fan extraordinaire — doesn’t disguise her ardor for the leather-lunged one in a mass of production notes, concert dates, etc.
- Library top 10
- June 29, 2009
- Here are the top-10 most-requested books at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt., for the week of June 16 through June 22.
- State of poetry: Poet laureate position moves from one Lawrence writer to another
- June 28, 2009
- “Are you packed to move out of the poet mansion?” Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg asks.
- Paper cuts: Michael Connelly’s new thriller evokes major turmoil facing a troubled industry
- June 28, 2009
- When Michael Connelly decided to set his 20th crime novel, “The Scarecrow,” amid the wreckage of the American newspaper industry, he didn’t know how much grief he was letting himself in for.
- Poet’s showcase
- June 28, 2009
- ‘A Stranger In My Garden,’ by Betty Laird
- Library top 10
- June 22, 2009
- Here are the top-10 most-requested books at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt., for the week of June 9 through June 15.
- Ad Astra Poetry Project: Rodriguez explores animal identities
- June 21, 2009
- inda Rodriguez was born in Fowler, graduated from Manhattan High School and attended Kansas State University before dropping out to hitchhike to Haight Ashbury in the ’60s.
- Smoke and ‘Mirrors’: Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano takes First World nations to task in latest work
- June 21, 2009
- You won’t like what Eduardo Galeano has to say. The Uruguayan author, who read from his new book, “Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone” recently at the Free Library of Philadelphia, is the Superman of social critics, having spent his 40-year career reminding the world of the injustices committed in the name of freedom.
- The thief in ‘How to Sell’ gives a licking and keeps on ticking
- June 21, 2009
- Bobby Clark, the hero of Clancy Martin’s “How to Sell” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24), is a born thief. And not at all ashamed of it. Or, perhaps, aware of it. He introduces himself with the charming story of stealing his mother’s wedding ring; his lingering regret is that the pawnshop ripped him off. He’s a bit of a sociopath, our Bobby, part of a great literary tradition that includes Duddy Kravitz and Studs Lonigan, characters who are hard to like, and equally hard to hate, largely because they’re such good salesmen. Which is something that the author knows all about.
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