That’s right. I read Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling. Book six in the series if you’re keeping score at home.

Half-Blood

There’s little point in reading this book if you haven’t read the five that preceded it. It’s really very good, and there is a reason that kids read it in one sitting. It holds up for adult reading as well, if you haven’t lost your childlike wonder and you’re belief in……. ***MAGIC****. Sorry. I was channeling Doug Henning there for a minute.

Anyway. That’s all I really have to say about this book. It has been written about and analyzed at length elsewhere. What I did come across, that I thought was really very cool, was The Guardian’s alternative Harry Potter Contest. The idea was to write about the death of Headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the manner of a famous writer (not a spoiler, because the contest was held well before the book came out). My favorites are in the style of Irvine Welsh, JD Salinger, and the Wooster & Jeeves stories.