Joanne Rowling has a new book.
Due out Dec 4th, with all proceeds going to Rowling’s own charity for abused kids. 
djm
yep…just pre-ordered the original version…
can’t justify a $100 tab for a mini-book…$7.00 I can handle. 
Just got a note from amazon.com that it will ship out within the next day or two. Woo hoo!
djm
I saw it yesterday at Borders but I didn’t buy it. My to-read stack is too long already.
Our copy (from Amazon.com) arrived yesterday.
Bloody favouritism! 
djm
I’m undecided on this one right now, after seeing a copy at Books-A-Million. Only about a 100 pages with big print. It’s just priced too high for something I can read in less than hour. I’ve still feel a bit ripped off from buying “A War of Gifts” by Orson Scott Card, which is a similar size with similar pricing.
I don’t understand this at all. Would you rather she charged by the word? Is that how we’re going to measure literature’s worth? 
Has anyone read it? Is it worth picking up?
Sorry if I ruffled your feathers, but I’m not trying to tell anyone how to measure literature’s worth. I’m just making the observation that the almost $15 price tag for what’s basically a short story is a bit too much FOR ME right now. I’ll probably end up with it anyway, though, since my wife is a HP fan, too.
Actually, I see that it’s closer to $7 through Amazon. That’s much more reasonable.
No feathers ruffed, just trying to get underneath a value judgment. I certainly understand personal situations, and I didn’t know the book was $15 (that’s pretty dern expensive). It’s probably already on the internet, anyway.
Actually, it’s $100 for the hard-cover deluxe version. Think of it as a charitable donation, which is the underlying reason for the cost charged.
djm
To whom is my charitable donation going? And can I write it off?
Playing Scrooge again in the school play this year, dear? 
So… who’s read it already? What is your opinion?
yeah I am curious about that, too. and aren’t we fed up yet with mrs rowling? I have heard people who used to LOVE harry potter now not caring about hearing rowling has a new book…whew.
berti
Eh, I think that the interest would still be huge if an actual HP continuation was being released.
Oh yeah!.. I’d be in the ‘midnight release line’.
Hubby, who just sort of ignored the group reading of the books while the kids and I devoured them, recently decided to see if he’d actually missed anything. He was reading them constantly, with the new one opened within minutes of closing the finished ones. He thoroughly enjoyed them all, and would no doubt join us in reading any new one that came out. That says a lot, believe me. He’s always been an avid reader, and quite choosy about what he likes.