release date for HP book 5 announced

Just in case you haven't been to cnn.com or another news site yet today. It's supposedly coming out in June of this year. Apparently the publishing company had a press conference where they made the announcement. They say the book is 255,000 words (I assume they're rounding to make that a nice number). Anyway, amazon doesn't have the info up yet, but it's a headline on cnn.com.

In other news, I'm killing time until I have to go for this test at the hospital. Not too much longer . . . I'm getting really hungry. :P At least I can eat as soon as it's over.

Smallville

Dude, what's up with this show? Grr. They're totally cutting down majorly on the Lex/Clark slashiness. Not only does Lex have a girlfriend, but Clark and Lana are getting too close for comfort. At least there was some Lana/Chloe slashiness in that last episode.

But the preview for next week! "Lex crosses over to the dark side!" What the hell!? It's too early for that! I thought he was supposed to very gradually become evil! :( Well, maybe there'll be some slashy angst.

Speaking of this week's episode again . . . I have to say the most disturbing scene was the one where the marine lieutenant comes to talk to Whitney's mother. *smush!*

books, etc

Grr. Okay, LJ didn't eat my entry this time, I accientally hit the touchpad and closed the window. GRR.

Anyway, what I was saying in my entry is that there are good books (hopefully) coming out this year!

• April -- Kushiel's Avatar (by Jacqueline Carey)
  
• June -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  
• "Summer" -- Hidden Warrior (by Lynn Flewelling)
  

I wonder if Kushiel's Avatar is going to be another 1000 pages like Kushiel's Dart and Kushiel's Chosen were. I hope so! I wonder how many of these books she's going to write though, because you know how when a series about one main character gets too long it starts to go majorly downhill . . . how many exciting things can happen to one person, even if she is touched by a god?

Anyway, I suppose they'll keep going until Phedre and Melisande have some kind of final showdown and either one of them kills the other or they live "happily" ever after with Phedre as Melisande's loving slave or something. It's gotta be one of those two. I'm glad the business with Joscelin is taken care of though! :) He's a cutie!

I really hope that Hidden Warrior will be as good as Bone Doll's Twin was. I really liked the grotesque element of BDT. I have to say my favorite scene was probably the one right near the beginning where the king is flopping around the dead baby to make sure it's dead. That and the mother's "insanity" and such. Hopefully any slashiness in this one won't be quite so gratuitous as the last one (meaning that I hope it will be relevant to the plot rather than thrown in for the "look, I still support gay rights" effect).

I want to reread BDT now, too bad I left it in school and once I go back I'll be too busy.

Speaking of which, my room is a library, you know. I always bring my favorite books to school, and I gladly loan them out to anyone who's interested (I think Lori still has a couple of mine, hmm). So if you're looking for slashy fantasy, I've got plenty. I also have an assload of books by Patricia C. Wrede (though I seem to have lost my copy of Magician's Ward at home somewhere).

Unrelated: I went and had that barium upper GI test done. The radiologist said that he didn't immediately see anything wrong, so that's good.

But anyway, yay, new books for me!

summer

So I found an REU in robotics that looks really tempting. The only problem is that it goes during that university's summer semester, which means it starts during our finals week. Do you think I should apply anyway, and then if they accept me and I want to do it, I could either take my finals early or arrange to go there a week late? Hmmm.

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