In contrast, it would appear that the Amazon Kindle Fire is a finished, serious piece of work, ready to go when it starts shipping in November.

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So when I finished Goblet of Fire, I said to - there were only two publishers who had bought the next book - and I said to both of them, I want to repay my advance.

BBC: JK Rowling

We finished off with Wood Fire-Grilled Kobe Ribcap with creamed mushrooms, cauliflower, marbled potatoes which he prepared using the butter poaching technique.

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Baddeley finished with two successive birdie threes to fire a 65.

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And I finished Azkaban and I'd already started Goblet of Fire because they overlapped - so there was absolutely no let-up.

BBC: JK Rowling

He also came under fire in some quarters for his ride on the frustrating Antonius Pius, who finished second in the Breeders' Cup Mile.

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What happened was, so Goblet of Fire, I was really in quite a state by the time that book was finished, and I mean at that point I really did feel a lot of things came together with Goblet of Fire.

BBC: JK Rowling