J.K. Rowling Just Posted A New Story About A "Singing Sorceress" From "Harry Potter"

It’s time to meet Celestina Warbeck. HT Today .You probably don't remember Celestina Warbeck (there are throwaway references to her in three Harry Potter books), but she kinda looks like this. i.e. Shirley Bassey. As J.K. Rowling has posted on Pottermore – and shared with Today:David Moir / Reuters Although we never lay eyes on Celestina during the whole seven volumes of the...

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"The Giver" Failed At The Box Office Because It Failed Its Fans

With a limp $12.8 million debut, the adaptation of Lois Lowry’s beloved novel is yet another casualty of Hollywood’s addiction to YA books. Brenton Thwaites in The Giver The Weinstein Company Ever since a boy wizard named Harry Potter became a sensation both on the best-seller list and at the box office, Hollywood has doggedly mined the pages of novels ostensibly aimed at...

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