Regarding Harry 5

[petronia]

Yes, it's supposed to come to the house tomorrow. (No mail on Saturdays normally, but Canada Post made it a special delivery day. I'm dead serious.) I am, however - and I say this in the nicest and most non-specifically-targetted way possible - getting royally sick of hearing about it. And this without so much as clicking through a single lj-cut, spoiler, interview or random babble. When you get down to it, HP canon for me is an enjoyable novel series that doesn't particularly rate obsessive - or indeed frequent - re-reading; optimally I would like to enjoy the latest installment the way I typically get to enjoy novel series, i.e. by myself with no one in my immediate circle clamouring over the same thing. (Apart from my sister, and bad enough that we'll be fighting over the same copy.) I do communal fanstuff; I don't do communal reads.

So if I disappear until the brouhaha dies down, that'll be why. ...Or one of the several other time-related issues that have cropped up in my life, including:

--Yet another freelance website project. Two, really.
--The fact that I imperatively need to set some time aside for swimming and yoga.
--My 3-4 nearly-finished fics.
--The 3-4 unwritten fics I badly want to start, including one that's on a 10-day deadline.
--The fact that Tania has somehow managed to pledge off my fanart services, meaning that I'm going to have to, like, actually clean up some of my sketches.
--Did I mention Xenosaga?

So, like, yeah.

Comments

[verstehen.livejournal.com]

Wait, you mean there's a new Harry Potter? Oh my god, I didn't even realize!

Frankly, I doubt it's as good as the frenzy implies. So, yes. Will read. Will enjoy. Will laugh at how many theories it disproves. Will move on.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I'm not usually a fandom sadist, but I think I *will* enjoy the mass disproving of theories at that. I just don't want to be there for the actual wailing and gnashing of teeth. XD

(What I want, I think, is to be able to pretend that I'm the only person in the world who happens to be reading this book this particular week. For that I'd have to get offline. Hells, for that I'd have to institute a media blackout.)

Re:

[verstehen.livejournal.com]

Personally I think that's the part that's worth staying online for. The gnashing of teeth, the cries of "WHY, WHY CHARACTER A! Why!" and the new insane theories people will come up with.

[ex-radicaled804.livejournal.com]

My mother and I will be doing battle over one copy, which I sincerely suspect could prove more amusing than the actual book.

[itlandm.livejournal.com]

You go, girl. See you when the hurricane has passed.

Personally I will read all the spoilers online, then consider whether I need to buy the book at all. Probably I will, as she has a decent way with words. (Then again, so have you, so I look forward to your fics.)