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Kathy Lin's personal website — so it's mainly about nothing.

The End of an Era

Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published on 21st July, 2007. It’s the end to a saga I have enjoyed for a while now. My only wish is that it ends the series on a bang, as the previous books (Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince) have left me a little wary.

Here’s to your seventh year, Harry Potter. May you embody the spirit and imagination that have made so many people fans and avid readers.

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human SocietiesCurrently reading: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond.

From the Publisher: Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the other way around? In this groundbreaking work, an evolutionary biologist dismantles racially-based theories and reveals the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. A whirlwind tour through 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire population. Here is a truly a world history, brilliantly written and radically new.