Waiting to be read

Everybody is caught up in the upcoming release of the new HP book. And I will confess that I am looking forward to it. But I am not sure how soon I will be getting to it.

Yes, there are several work-related books that I ordered and which have recently come in, and they are on my list. In particular, Csikszentmihalyi's Talented Teens and Kerr's Counseling the Gifted and Talented are high on my list. And I have new parody/satire reading to do to catch up on things.

But I have a couple of borrowed books I need to work my way through and one new purchase. The first is relevant to the Parody element, in addition to its being borrowed: Nuclear Age, by Brian Clevenger. Chapter Issue 2 is entitled "So many new characters!" Issue 25's "Teaching Assisstants of DOOM," and Issue 31 is "The Terrible Secret of Rachel." How far wrong can I go?

More recently borrowed is Invasive Practices by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston. It is an extension/expansion of an old (30 years ago) short story Card wrote called "Malpractice."

And yet, it is not any of these that has me eagerly awaiting the turning of pages. It is not J. K. Rowling's mind I anticipate savoring. It is the new collection of short stories by


Peter S. Beagle.

The Line Between first came out in 2006. Only one of the stories in it is less recent than 2004. *drool*

I think, in good conscience, the borrowed items should come first.

"Bother," said Pooh.