I can't wait either! Unfortunately I'll be at camp for the summer (well, not unfortunately, I LOVE my camp and I love being a counselor!), so I won't really have any time to read it - two hour breaks a day, used for the very vital showering and sleeping. I still might get a copy, and try to read it, but I won't be able to read it all within three days like I would if I were just at home.

34 days, 0 hours, 23 minutes, and 57 seconds and counting

29 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes...

And woohoo, my bday is June 24th, so i'm right around there too!!

Kitso
KS 361 times i'm gonna read this book when it comes out :P

One of our sons turns 11 on June 21. Of course, the book would make a perfect gift for him but I told him he can unwrap it and then I'll grab it and run off with it-WAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA.

(Siigghhh.) I guess we really need 2 copies in this house.

Poor kids i hope you make it. I seemed to have met more people my age who like this series this year in college, especially when you get the nickname Potter, I think you know why.

Leave it to sherbertlemons to start the thread :D

If any of you are in New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut, you should know that there's going to be a Harry Potter meetup on June 20. Actually, there are going to be meetups all over the country, and you can subscribe to the update site at http://www.muari.org and pick your local meeting spot in about 10 days. Scholastic is buying out the big lightup billboard in Times Square at 12:01 am on June 21, and they'll run a ad for OotP. I am going to be there doing the happy dance, then I'm going to head off to the nearest bookstore to buy my copy, unless I get picked to review it for Bookreporter, in which case I'll already have a copy (oh, the perks of my job!).

For those who can't wait, there's always fanfiction...

That's what my little sister and I had to do with GoF. We realized neither of us could stand sitting there, watching the other one read it first. :D Buy two copies. You'll probably both be much happier.

KappaStargirl- I thought I had heard somewhere that reveiwers weren't getting advance copies of this one? Maybe I'm wrong- if I am you'll definitely receive my envy! *turns green*

Normally, when a book is published, advance copies, called galleys, go out to reviewers 4-6 weeks in advance of the book's publication. This gives lead time to read the book, write the review, and have the reviewer's editor get the writing edited and printed so it's available by the time the book is published. For example, I got a copy of The Devil Wears Prada for review before it was published (and it really sucked if I do say so myself), so the review would be ready to go by the book's pub date. With HP, Scholastic refuses to give out galleys. Owning a galley of HP is just the reviewer taking her life in her hands. Scholastic is, however, sending out copies of OotP so that reviewers can be guaranteed to have a copy by June 21. If my editor selects me to review it, she said there'd be a copy in her office by June 18. Since my editor's office is in New York, which I can get to easily by bus, I would go there on the 18th and pick it up. That's the most in advance anyone is going to get a copy.

So how delayed would that make the publication of the review? I guess most publications would scramble to get a reveiw published before everyone in the nation has read it, right? So, just out of curiosity, if you were chosen to be the reveiwer, what sort of time frame do you think you'd be looking at for your deadline? When do you think they'd be looking at to publish the review? (Oh, and it's totally cool if you have no idea. As a writer, I can't imagine you'd be that terribly familiar with the whole process, but I just thought I'd throw it out there and see if you could make some sort of guess.)

And June 18 is still three less days of torture. :p

KappaStar girl, I'm so jealous of your job. I love to read (even books besides HP ;) ) and I like writing, too. Don't know if I'd be all that good at critique. But I'm still jealous. :p

The Devil Wears Prada did not suck! What's wrong with you? Maybe it's because I was a fashion major, but I thought it was awesome.:p

Did anyone else pre-order Goblet of Fire from Barnes and Noble? I just received an e mail from them telling me that my book will be delivered on Saturday, June 21st. Woo Hoo!

The only thing is it said someone MUST be home to sign for it.

I haven't gotten an e-mail and I preordered in January! :mad: I'd better get my copy on time!

I spoke too soon. I got the e-mail just now. :D

I just got the email from Barnes and Nobles too!!! Now I'm gonna have to sit home all day and wait for it to come!!!! :D