Gah!
Where is my book? UPS.com says it’s in Landover, and hasn’t been scanned since 3:50pm yesterday, when it was “in transit to final destination”. Yahoo maps says Landover is 25 minutes away.
Even with DC traffic, it should be here!
Apparently, I just needed to complain on a public message board that it wasn’t here.
See you all when I finish the book!
Got on my bike at 11.50 last night, got to the bookstore about about 12.05. Since I prepaid, I got to stand in the very fast moving line, and was out of there by 12.10, home at 12.20. I managed to read about 150 pages before finally zonking out at 2.
And I still woke up before my alarm clock went off! What’s up with that?
Gave me extra time to read, though, can’t complain.
b&n sep. us up by colour, yellow for reserved, orange for unreserved.
i got my book with another book at 12:30 am. we also got green wristbands with the date and an owl on them, a harry potter poster, and stickers! love the freebies.
i read 'till chaper 17, conked out and finished this am.
hurrah, jsgoddess!! i’m glad you didn’t have to stalk ups trucks around the county.
I’m reading the book first, and then Ivyboy gets it (Ivygirl got to read OotP first after me.)
So, I’m sitting at the table, reading, then I close the book. Ivygirl demands to know what I’m doing.
“I’m going to make myself some lunch,” say I.
“No! Keep reading! I’ll make your lunch!” Ivygirl says, scrambling to the fridge. She’s already given me the stink-eye because I’m on the computer instead of reading. Jeez, I feel like I’m back in school, cramming for an English final.
Anyone care to give a spoiler-free review for those of us who are waiting?
It’s pretty good… maybe the best of the last 3 (the first 3 seemed tighter and better edited).
Picked it up at 8:20 this morning at the Lincoln Center B&N. Saw three other people in Starbucks reading it, but I had to spend most of the day driving upstate, having lunch with a friend, and then babysitting the nephew, who is five months old and would have tried to cram all 700+ pages in his mouth, his latest thing.
Like it so far; without spoiling, I do have to say I enjoy it most when the wizarding world in all its complexity is shown to us, as it contrasts and/or aligns with the muggle one. The wizards are human beings, after all, just with something extra.