Book #10 of 2007 - Sam's Letters To Jennifer

Title: Sam's Letters To Jennifer
Author: James Patterson

This was a book of the month book for the reading club I'm part of. Its something I probably wouldn't have picked up if this wasn't a book of the month, its not usually something I'd read, but I enjoyed this book.

It was a bit sad at times, but had a happy ending. The story starts with a woman, who's husband is dead, and who's grandmother (and best friend) is in a coma. When she goes to her grandmother's house, after visiting her at the hospital, she finds a pile of letters in the room she always stayed in, all written to her. The grandmother told her (Jennifer) the story of her life, there are surprises in the letters that Jennifer never expected. There are 2 love stories intertwined throughout the book, these stories are in Sam's letters, and in Jennifer's life as she's reading Sam's letters. The ending is sad, yet happy as well. All in all a really good book.

Book #9 of 2007 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Author: J.K. Rowling

I decided to read this book again because the seventh Harry Potter book is coming out next month and I wanted to refresh my memory as to the story as far as we have it. There were a couple things that I had forgotten about, or maybe never thought as much about until the re-read. I guess its like a movie, you can see them so many times and discover something you never saw before.

In the past few months, between mugglecast and pottercast, as well as talking with my friend chrissy about the upcoming book, there has been talk about the horcruxes, who lives or dies, etc. I have come up with a new horcrux theory, or possibility. My theory is - there is a horcrux hidden in the room of requirement. Harry walks past the room of requirement needing a place to HIDE his potion book. He is on his way to dumbledore's office and sees that Professor Trelawny is kicked out of the Room by someone already in the place she wants, a place to HIDE her Sherry bottles. We find out at the end that the "male voice" that was so happy in the Room, was Draco who was using the place to HIDE the vanishing cabinet he was fixing so that he could fix it and then let the death eaters in through it. Harry passed the cabinet while in the room to HIDE his book and dismisses it as a broken cabinet that Montague got lost in during the 5th book. So, here is the conclusion I came to: the Room became the same place for everyone looking to hide something, because Harry mentions things that looked like they'd been hidden and forgotten about, that is why he marked the spot where he put the book. As far as I can remember, no other time has the room looked like it had been used before for the same purpose it was being summoned for. So, what if Tom Riddle the student knew about the room of the requirement and was looking for a place to hide something and put it in that room. It was probably filled with hidden stuff before her got there. At the time he may not have had a horcrux to hide, but he could have kept it in mind and decided to use it. Another thought is that it could be charmed to look like "junk". I dunno.. just a thought.

I still love this book, and all the others.. and anxiously waiting for Deathly Hallows