Just had to be the first to say it. I just got back from Oxford Street, where rival bookshops are putting on various open-till-midnight bashes and the queues for the book are hundreds of feet long. On the bus home at a minute to midnight I saw a hundred people or so lined up outside my local bookstore, too. Gosh.
I didn’t get the book, I’ve got a dissertation to write, but as Border’s was having a “20% off till midnight” sale (thus sneakily excluding the 12:01 Potter moment) I did pick up two books I’ve had my eye on, “Watching the English” by Kate Fox (about the cultural expectations and tendencies of English people) and “Spoken Here” by Mark Abley (about disappearing world languages).
Bedtime now, night all, and Cees, only six and a half hours to go!
Our copy will be arriving in the mail tomorrow (at least, that’s what Amazon.com promised).
As soon as the release date was made public, my wife informed me that I’d be on my own this weekend while she reads the new Harry Potter book. The weather looks promising; maybe I’ll take a hike.
my copy is supposed to arrive by mail tomorrow, too, according to amazon, but guaranteed by 7pm, and somebody has to be there to receive it (wizard attired not required).
my 16 year old daughter called me from germany today and read me the back cover because it was already saturday there and added nyah nyah nyahnyah nyah and said she was already on page 11 and was going to stay up all night and read it and there was nothing i could do about it. (like i’m going to stop her READING!!!) it’s a good thing i have to work all night tonight cuz there’s no way i’ll get any sleep!!
I bet Cees is waiting (along with MANY others) in a long line right now… only a few more minutes to go.
Going to have to wait my turn in the library line, got on the waiting list in April… Apparently that was a little late: I’m number 402 out of 666. Good thing they’ll have several hundred copies in circulation and the gal at the desk said a lot of people give in and go buy their own copy, so it may not be toooooo long of wait (we hope).
Happy reading folks!
Sara (who really should be asleep right now so goodnight)
I detest Wally World, as a general rule, but it was good to be able to pick up our copy and one for our neighbor, who doesn’t want to wait til we’re done, LOL… we’ve stoically decided to wait til tomorrow to start it, as it is already 1am and DH and I both have 8am appointments… sigh.
I promised myself I would never do anything so nerdy as to actually go to one of these midnight book events just to stand in line for an hour to buy a dumb kids’ book. So here it is, 2:00 am, and I am on the second chapter … :roll:
Even tho’ the other Weekender had already ordered a Brit version, she picked one up at the GROCERY store this a.m. What is up with that? Surely, the bookstores should have had the monetary flurry, imo. The 15 yr old young Weekster has dibs. I can wait.
It was only $15 at Wally World! I was so excited I forgot to get what I’d gone for to begin with!
It will go unread, unfortunately, until I’m finished with Janet Evanovich’s eleventh in the Stephanie Plum series, Eleven on Top, which I need to return to someone at work. She’s quit her job as fugitive apprehension agent (bounty hunter) for her slimy cousin, Vinnie, but misfortunes still befall her. Her car was shot up straight off, shot up again by Lula, sledgehammered, torched by a psychopath, and is now sitting in front of her parents’ home in Trenton, dripping water through a 12-inch hole in the backseat floor. She’s on her third job in as many days, having been fired from each of the first two, and I haven’t gotten to Chapter 3 yet.
Dale, you are the undisputed … and not always in the most flattering context. 
You will suffer for that heresey. 
Good thing they’ll have several hundred copies in circulation and the gal at the desk said a lot of people give in and go buy their own copy, so it may not be toooooo long of wait (we hope).
Sara (who really should be asleep right now so goodnight)