Lots of Copies Printed for Final Potter Book

Scholastic Corp announced yesterday that it would release a record-breaking 12 million copies for the first US printing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which will be released on July 21, 2007.

The release of the seventh and final book in the popular series by British author JK ROWLING will be backed by a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign and is expected to be one of the biggest publishing events in recent years.

Harry Potter books are available in 64 different languages and have sold 325 million copies. There are four feature films based on the series - and the fifth film, based on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, will be opening in theaters a week before the new book's arrival.

The first printing of Deathly Hallows breaks a record of 10.8 million copies of the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in 2005. That book sold 6.9 million in the first 24 hours.

Review - The Constant Princess

The Constant Princess another novel by Philippa Gregory. This one focuses on the life of Katerine of Aragon, Henry the VIII's first wife. The book starts with Katerine's childhood and then progresses to her first marage to Arthur, Henry's older brother. Katherine's passion turns her marriage with Arthur beautiful, but the beauty is diminished when Arthur suddenly dies of consumption. They plan how they will make England a prosperous country. Arthur, on his death bed makes Katherine promise that she will become Queen of England, marry Arthur's brother, and deny that their marriage was consummated, a lie. Unfortunately, it's not that easy Katherine struggles to become Queen, and eventually falls from power.

I enjoyed this novel very much. It is interesting in that unlike some of her other novels she actually tells the story through a main charicter - I find it more interesting when the story is told through a secondary character like in The Other Boleyn Girl