Friday of BSG and HBP
Which is a good reason to be glad that I'm headed to the coast for four internet-free days in approximately an hour and a half.
On the one hand, I have to hope and pray my ancient VCR comes through and records BSG tonight. The house we're staying at has no cable! The horror! What, they think there are other things to do on the coast besides watch TV?? LOL.
On the other, HBP hits hands tonight at midnight for many people, and tomorrow morning for everyone else. I myself am not going to post a thing about the book until after I've finished it, at which time I'll post my thoughts/reactions behind cut tags, of course. And not that I don't love LJ, because I do, and I understand about everyone's excitement over HP, but I am not looking forward to wading through fifteen jillion posts on the subject - posts which I won't read until I'm done with the book. It's not even wading through them, precisely. I'm just feeling rather relieved that until Monday, at least, I'll be away from the initial craze of reactions and miss being possibly spoiled for Big Things in the book. I've already read one accidentally, by clicking on a link that didn't say anything about spoilers, but certainly did have them.
Still, at this point I'm not inclined to believe anything I read online except Scholastic's jpeg of the back cover blurb of the book. They have such a tight hold on everything, slapping lawyers and gag orders on anyone who happened to get the book early (I think there's something like twenty people, total?), that I wonder where these people get their supposed spoilers from when they appear so mysteriously online. All I can say is, I hope the spoiler I read was wrong, else this book might be my last in the series. My husband's as well.
With all that in mind, if I do happen to get online, I'm not sure I'll be checking in here, or not. If I don't, see you all Monday, and have a great BSG, HBP weekend, depending on your fandom. :)
On the one hand, I have to hope and pray my ancient VCR comes through and records BSG tonight. The house we're staying at has no cable! The horror! What, they think there are other things to do on the coast besides watch TV?? LOL.
On the other, HBP hits hands tonight at midnight for many people, and tomorrow morning for everyone else. I myself am not going to post a thing about the book until after I've finished it, at which time I'll post my thoughts/reactions behind cut tags, of course. And not that I don't love LJ, because I do, and I understand about everyone's excitement over HP, but I am not looking forward to wading through fifteen jillion posts on the subject - posts which I won't read until I'm done with the book. It's not even wading through them, precisely. I'm just feeling rather relieved that until Monday, at least, I'll be away from the initial craze of reactions and miss being possibly spoiled for Big Things in the book. I've already read one accidentally, by clicking on a link that didn't say anything about spoilers, but certainly did have them.
Still, at this point I'm not inclined to believe anything I read online except Scholastic's jpeg of the back cover blurb of the book. They have such a tight hold on everything, slapping lawyers and gag orders on anyone who happened to get the book early (I think there's something like twenty people, total?), that I wonder where these people get their supposed spoilers from when they appear so mysteriously online. All I can say is, I hope the spoiler I read was wrong, else this book might be my last in the series. My husband's as well.
With all that in mind, if I do happen to get online, I'm not sure I'll be checking in here, or not. If I don't, see you all Monday, and have a great BSG, HBP weekend, depending on your fandom. :)