Potter Peters Out

It's happened. "The Times Book Review's senior editor, Dwight Garner, announced Thursday...that the best-seller list for the May 11 issue of the book review does not include a single Harry Potter title."

Ten years. The Book Review, in fact, created a seperate children's best-seller list because the Potter titles kept taking up room every freakin' week. And then, they had to create another seperate list just for series children's books. I suppose it only means that every child in America already has a copy. Maybe two.

This phenomenom has been such fun. I was fortunate enough to go to midnight bookstore events for the last two, and I'm so glad I did, so glad I was a part of it all. Something like this is not likely to happen again, something with which both children and adults can find common ground. I will personally miss it off the best-seller list and hope that it doesn't stay away too long.

You can read the story here.