Is That A Locket In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Glad To Be Reading Harry Potter Anonymously?

J.K. Rowling: £96 For Every Word In Deathly Hallows: Yet another way of measuring how rich J.K. Rowling is! That book is 759 pages long. And now we know why. [MSNBC]

Yes, but were those 8.3 million copies as good as You: On A Diet? Harry Potter will not be showing up on the NYT bestseller list anytime soon, even with that grown-up looking cover featuring the locket of Slytherin. Another twist of the knife, eh, NYT? [Blogging Stocks]

"For Once, Irma Had Been Totally Satisfied." That's from page 91 of Drop Dead Beautiful by Jackie Collins, at # 7 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list, two slots behind Bungalow 2 by Danielle Steele. But the unkindest cut of all: # 14, The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien. Et tu, Tolkien? Somewhere, it doesn't seem fair. p.s. "He'd ripped the clothes from her body with feverish haste, then he'd begun divesting his own garments as fast as he could get them off." Spoiler alert: Not Ron and Hermione. [Amazon]

Harry Potter And The Totally Familiar Plot Points: Especially when your book zigs from page 352 back to 289, then back to page 320. The not-familiar plot points? The ones on pages 353 to 384, which were missing. Best book ever! [Times Colonist]

Is that a wand in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? Since all these children's books now sound totally freaking boring, we suggest sending your young'uns straight to the internet for some on/Hermione fan fic, especially the stuff where Ron and Hermione are all grown up and pulsing with new grown-up desires. Engorgio! [NRO]

HufflePuff Piece: Newsflash - J.K. Rowling will miss Harry Potter! Really? See the first item above. D'ya think? [Scotsman]

Is It Possible That No One Has Yet Thought To Call J.K. Rowling "J. Ro?" Well, MuggleNet has here but only 766 Google hits does not a Harry Potter dent make. Other fun nicknames from the book, just because: H. Po, H. Gra, RoWee, AlbDo, MinMcGo, SevSna, DraMalf, V. Mo, Justin Finch-Fletchley.