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	<title>Comments on: Love for Harry Potter</title>
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		<title>By: Deane</title>
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		<dc:creator>Deane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have never read a Potter novel, though I would love to.  Your post has got me thinking about fiction series in general, and how we bond to them.  Looking back, here are the series in my past:

&lt;em&gt;The James Bond novels, by Ian Fleming.&lt;/em&gt;
Quite simply the greatest fiction I will ever read.  I was thrilled to find that last years movie &quot;Casino Royale&quot; was so faithful to the novel, Fleming&#039;s very first.

&lt;em&gt;The Xanth Series, by Piers Anthony&lt;/em&gt;
Read them in high school.  Loved the word play in them.

&lt;em&gt;The Alphabet Mysteries, by Sue Grafton&lt;/em&gt;
The latest one just came one.  &quot;S is for Silence.&quot;

And that&#039;s it, I&#039;m sad to say.  Two series that I&#039;d like to complete are the Potter books and the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis.

Someday.

(In writing this post, I struggled with the the plural for &quot;series.&quot;  So I went looking, and found this:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Series is both a singular and a plural form. When it has the singular sense of &quot;one set,&quot; it takes a singular verb, even when series is followed by of and a plural noun: A series of lectures is scheduled. When it has the plural sense of &quot;one or more sets,&quot; it takes a plural verb: Two series of lectures are scheduled: one for experts and one for laypeople.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Interesting.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have never read a Potter novel, though I would love to.  Your post has got me thinking about fiction series in general, and how we bond to them.  Looking back, here are the series in my past:</p>
<p><em>The James Bond novels, by Ian Fleming.</em><br />
Quite simply the greatest fiction I will ever read.  I was thrilled to find that last years movie &#8220;Casino Royale&#8221; was so faithful to the novel, Fleming&#8217;s very first.</p>
<p><em>The Xanth Series, by Piers Anthony</em><br />
Read them in high school.  Loved the word play in them.</p>
<p><em>The Alphabet Mysteries, by Sue Grafton</em><br />
The latest one just came one.  &#8220;S is for Silence.&#8221;</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s it, I&#8217;m sad to say.  Two series that I&#8217;d like to complete are the Potter books and the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis.</p>
<p>Someday.</p>
<p>(In writing this post, I struggled with the the plural for &#8220;series.&#8221;  So I went looking, and found this:</p>
<blockquote><p>Series is both a singular and a plural form. When it has the singular sense of &#8220;one set,&#8221; it takes a singular verb, even when series is followed by of and a plural noun: A series of lectures is scheduled. When it has the plural sense of &#8220;one or more sets,&#8221; it takes a plural verb: Two series of lectures are scheduled: one for experts and one for laypeople.</p></blockquote>
<p>Interesting.)</p>
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		<title>By: roberta</title>
		<link>http://www.blackmarks.net/2007/07/20/love-for-harry-potter/#comment-46764</link>
		<dc:creator>roberta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ah, geez. I&#039;ve lost a bet now. I had 10 bucks on you naming your child Voldemort. ho hum.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ah, geez. I&#8217;ve lost a bet now. I had 10 bucks on you naming your child Voldemort. ho hum.</p>
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