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More Harry. We missed this story from the weekend about the translations of Harry Potter and the immense power actually wielded by the translator. Bookninja spotted this one.

That previous post was rather downbeat, so, for a laugh, let’s take a look at Daniel Radcliffe – aka Harry Potter in the movies. Looks like he’s ditching the bespectacled boy-wizard image for the stage play he’s going to be appearing in next month.

Some of the most gruesome murder novels are written by women and loved by women, according to The Guardian. I don’t think anyone should be surprised by this article – women are capable of committing atrocities so they are certainly capable of writing about them and reading them.

Since we’re a roll with the sf&f posts these days … I found this link while we were working on developing the new “rooms” (science fiction and fantasy – in case you missed them). Over at the Fantastic Metropolis site they have put together a list of 50 science fiction and fantasy books one should [...]

If you have visted an AbeBooks website before you know we have some areas of the site dedicated to specific bookish interests (we call them “rooms”).  We’ve had rooms for New Books, Rare Books and Textbooks for some time now, however we now have some very special news.  Today, we have opened the Science Fiction Room and the [...]

None of today’s book news catches my eye this morning so I’m going to recommend a book. They Call Me Naughty Lola: Personal Ads from the London Review of Book seems rather apt with Valentine’s Day closing fast. I’ve seen a couple of reviews now and it seems very funny. The LRB’s personal ads column [...]

According to the NY Times and an oddly similar article in The Guardian several days later, copies of the 1978 book Russian Thinkers is flying off bookstore shelves in New York. The Times says the book is hard to find even on the Internet. AbeBooks has copies!! Anyway, so what’s the cause of interest in this [...]

Oprah has another book club pick, a pretty safe one. It’s Sidney Poitier’s autobiography published in 2000 The Measure of a Man. He also wrote another book in 1987 – This Life.

On this day in 1921, a play with the first usage of the word Robot opened. Science fiction was never the same. (Yes, we’re on a sci-fi / fantasy kick these days.)

It’s still only January but here’s another Harry Potter story – the BBC is going to broadcast a reality TV show where kids learn how to be real Harry Potters while staying at a boarding school. “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which will air later this year, will show the children learning card tricks, Latin spells and [...]