Any booksellers or librarians here?

[Arachne Webbstir]

Perhaps all you devoted booklovers (why else would you be working in 
a bookstore or library, right? ;) could use my recommended book lists 
to suggest other authors to HP fans looking for something else, after 
they've read OOP for the fifth time this summer.

Although I've been posting like mad (I heard that remark!) on the 
HPFGU book forum this past month, I still have a number of other book 
connections in my "Detectionary" notebooks which I'd like to share 
with other HP fans. 

There already are numerous book lists claiming "if you love HP, you 
will also enjoy such and such".  But as the catch phrase goes, I 
tried some of them--but I didn't like them.

Partly due to lack of time (I'm a full-time caregiver for a family 
member), I might not post on HP book forums for a month.  It may be 
several months before I can get hold of copy of OOP, if I must wait 
to borrow it from the public library, due to lack of funds.

I might utilize the Amazon.com "Listmania" feature to "publish" two 
of my lists (one for children--and all those young at heart--and one 
for advanced teens and adults).  


However, I'm not sure how you find a list by a specific person on 
Amazon.  I know their Wishlists can be searched by name (I used my 
nom-de-plume below) or by someone's email.  Perhaps their "About Me" 
feature may give a link to any other product lists I might compile 
for public access.

You can tell it's me because area of shipping address starts with 
Frankenstein's namesake in GOBLET, and then the first syllables in 
name of Portia Blake's home (you relish unraveling riddles--don't 
you?)

Looking up titles or authors I have mentioned in HPFGU book forum may 
also bring you to my planned recommended lists on Amazon (I swear 
they aren't paying me for product placement or name dropping!)

Even if you do find my "recommends", you might not see the 
connections I interpret as evidence that Rowling also read and refers 
to them "intertexually" in her own work.  My explanations with 
citations may be longer than will fit in space Amazon allots for 
reviews.  

Perhaps I can post more of my observations and essays about reading 
with Rowling-colored glasses on HPFGU later this summer.

I hope you will all enjoy starting ORDER OF THE PHOENIX at midnight 
tonight.

Now it's time for me to try to take a nap.  (Sometimes lately, I feel 
ike an enslaved house elf, on-call 24/7.  I wonder if their secret 
for feeling content only when self-lessly working hard will ever be 
revealed! ;)

Til later on the web,

ARANITA WEBBSTIR