One can only hope!!

Fingers crossed for total exact replica. The risk is part of the excitement.

Today I learned that my school's mailing list lets you use the reply-all function to send messages to the entire student body.

Their scenes in Prisoner of Azkaban probably didn't help. Especially that one with Sirius crying, "This heart is where you truly live! This heart! Here!"

I LOVE the campy Knopf version from the 80's. They are so amazing. I also really like the pastel-y Random House version from the late 90's. SO much better than what her current publisher has given her.

You're right, that one is probably the US. It looks similar to another version I remember seeing. I have the hard cover version of that Amber Spyglass edition. Its even more lovely because the dust jacket comes off and you just have the lovely illustration spanning out from the center.

She pretty much said that she was not involved in cover art during reissues. This is pretty much all on the publisher trying to hone in on Twilight fans. Boy are they in for a surprise.

I bought it immediately, of course, using the excuse, "I have to show Tamora how terrible it is! I need to know how this happened!" She did not let me down.

I'm super attached to my Tamora Pierce Random House covers. They have basically fallen apart. I had a friend in high school who had the Knopf versions which have a super 80's fantasy look to them. I would never have pegged them for teen reads because they look so... pulp-y. They're kind of amazing.

I bought it because it was just SO BAD and I needed to show her and also have living proof of how horrific it was. But I wouldn't let her sign it. There are so many many many terrible things about it. And as much as I disliked this book in the series (because although it is called "Woman Who Rides Like A Man" it…

Very often I find that I really love the UK versions over the US ones, though I think its mostly just seeing the different paths the cover designers chose. These ones are lovely. I really liked the UK covers for the Hunger Games (with the fold out front) and I think the 2011 UK reissue of the Dark Materials series is…

Yes, those ones. I'm always very surprised by publisher choices of covers between the UK and the US versions. And sometimes just in various US editions. They re-did the covers for Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness quartet a few years back. I went to a book signing of her's and asked about them, specifically this…

Are these the UK versions of Nix's books? Mine don't look anything at all like that but mine are also 15 years old.

Sometimes I feel that way but I ultimately enjoy the episodes so I'm not too upset by it. They have said they're going to wrap up all the story lines (except the pineapple one - possibly). Which means there are like 3 slaps to give and I'm up for anything slap-bet related.

They got a 9th season back in January. So, for most of the season they expected to have Ted meet her in this last episode. I honestly hope they don't drag out the meeting till the end of next season. I'd like for them to interact at least a bit. At least the restrictions they've placed on themselves for next season…

I have less stress-pimple outbreaks in the summer. I've always attributed it to being outside in the sun and fresh air more. Even at my sweatiest the summer skin always feels so much cleaner and less oily.

My favorite part this season was when she covered for Cece and played model for the day and got herself locked in the car after not being able to handle the rotating stage in 5 inch platform heels.

I feel so informed now!

You can't hire a person to do a task that would be considered "work" on the Sabbath. If you were paying them it has to be in advance. Generally speaking these tasks need to be seen as "favors" and the money exchange would be a "gift." And they have to be non-jews. I was interviewed once to babysit a little girl on the…

And they're the slowest elevators on the planet. My grandmother lived in a Jewish home for years and whenever we'd visit her and it happened to be a Saturday we'd trace our way through various disconnected stairwells to get to her apartment because, holy crap, it took you ten minutes to go three floors.