In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling.
She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Her ability to find and dig at a characters weaknesses is superb and is the only thing that saves this novel from being mere fluff.Īs all her books to come will be, this is a must read for those of us who have grown up with her novels by our bedsides and in our dreams though I can only hope that in the future, should the wizarding world be locked away for good, she finds more magic in reality than she has conjured here.Although she writes under the pen name J.K. That being said, Rowling has an uncommon ability to tap into the minds and lives of her characters to such a degree that come as fully formed humans leaping off of the page. It is onvios that her creative talents have been squashed by the Muggle world and the restrictions it imposes on her imagination. Her scenes, the one that comes to mind most frequently being that of a dinner party, are over drawn and not entertaining. It is also hard to ignore Rowling's bias as it's being shoved down your throat page after page.
Though her prose has remained as enchanting as its expected to, her subject matter, though dark and certainly adult themed, is reduced to near fluff by gossip and overly staged conclusion. Rowling's first book since finishing her Harry Potter series will more than sell a decent amount of copies but it is my belief that most of her pervious readers will be by and large disappointed with her first foray into reality.
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