Yay! Got the book! (no spoilers)

[thistlechaser]

Okay, actually I got it almost an hour and a half ago. Yay! It was supposed to come by UPS, but instead the mailwoman (USPS) brought it. Oddness!

Know those scans that were flaoting around the net before the book's release? Of the first chapter and pages from later chapters? I'm happy to see that they were all true scans, real spoilers. :) Guess the rest of the spoilers will be real, too!

I'm only up to chapter 4. I'm mostly enjoying the story, if not her writing. I haven't been sucked into the storyline yet though. Every few pages I find myself checking to see how far till the end of the chapter, so I can see the comments posted on hbp_chapters. (Great comm idea, by the way! I'm loving seeing what others think!)

I'm kind of sad that there's so much fic on the net (HP fanfic and The Admin) that I enjoyed more (and got hooked on way faster) than HBP. HBP isn't bad, I just expected to be hooked by the story way before now. Hopefully it will happen at some point...

Edit: Heeheehee! British people are so funny!

Mrs. Weasley is talking:
"Sit down, dear, I'll knock something up.

*rolls and dies* Mpreg time at the Burrow? Poor (I assume) Mr. Weasley!

(For any British people reading this, in common American slang "kocked up" means to become pregnant. "She got knocked up." or "He knocked her up, that's why they had to get married.")

*dies more*

Comments

[lunarennui.livejournal.com]

you lucky wench! my copy is somewhere ON THE APARTMENT GROUNDS but not in the office! apparently the mailperson puts the notice (OMG YOU HAVE A PARCEL IN THE LEASING OFFICE) in the box with your mail, but then doesn't actually deposit said parcel until she's delivered the mail to EVERY DAMNED BUILDING. waaaaaaaaaaaah. so i've been calling the office every hour or so to ask if she's there yet, and she HASN'T been, and OMG WAIT MAYBE IF I DRIVE AROUND THE COMPLEX I CAN FIND HER OMG SQUEEEEE

*runs*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ack, that's horrible! Hope you get it really soon!

[epyonmk3.livejournal.com]

Hee, that's amused many of my American friends too. "Knocking something up" is putting something together, or sorting something out. The common phrase for being pregnant is 'up the duff'. :P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

'up the duff'

Hee! Here "duff" is (not too common) slang for "butt", so 'up the duff' would unlikely be related to being pregnant! Heehee!