News Flash

This morning's news brings a report that the latest "Harry Potter" novel has been released. Who knew? Memo to publisher: a little PR could have helped.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Harry Potter novels, it is a series of books intended mostly for young readers. The eponymous character is a boy who attends a school for wizards. At the same time he also must occasionally face the forces of evil.

As it happens I've read the first four books in the series. I found them to be great fun. I'll probably get around to this latest book, the seventh, in due time. So far the series gets my thumbs up (which will probably boost sales tremendously). If your local bookseller does not carry the books they can probably order them for you. Failing that, most of the major online book vendors can mail them to you.