WAG - Covering the Boy Wizard
This is old new for those people who are constantly cruising the internet to get the latest gossip on Harry Potter, but I just heard of this recently, so I thought I’d write about it now.
The cover art for the next Harry Potter tome (Book Six: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in case you didn’t know) has been released.
You can find the English cover here and the American one here.
I find the differences in emphases interesting to say the least. One tries to be dark and mysterious and one catches the title character in what looks to be a serious showdown. I can’t speak for the artists on why they chose the scenes they did, though CNN.com has just posted an article on the designer of the American edition, Mary GrandPre, who I now envy just for the simple fact that she’s already gotten to read the book.
I know there will be more Potter tidbits as we get closer to the July 16 sale date. J.K. Rowling, with her website, has been quite liberal with her gifting of hints.
I now diehard fans who went nuts with the announcement of the official title in December, as I remember doing. In another month or two we’ll get the jacket blurb, which will only entice us more.
I don’t know what I’ll be doing when the book comes out. After consulting the wall calendar, I know it’s going to be the weekend, so I can try to finish the book in one day like last time. I chewed through the 870 pages pretty quickly. I purchased the book at midnight, started reading around 1 a.m. (I don’t remember what for, but I’d made some deal with my sister that included the pledge she could read the beginning chapter first), fell asleep around 7 a.m., woke up in the early afternoon and finished it after another seven hours.
We’ll see if I’m up for the marathon then.
For now, I’ll just have to content myself by looking at the pretty pictures.
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