So I have two that we'll pick up at midnight on the 15th, but I'm going to keep them overnight so Clare won't start reading. She and I have to get up at 7:30 the following morning. I'm dropping her off at a Girl Scout yard sale, and I'm going over to Boston to do some GS Leader training. If she starts reading it, she stay up late, and go to sleep late, and I'll never get her up, or if she stays up without sleeping at all, she'll be worthless for working at the yard sale. She's thinking of going down to CT with a friend to ConnectiCon that afternoon, so she might take the book and read it on the way. I told her to read it out loud so her friend, Rebecca, who is driving, can enjoy it too!
Heh, yeah, that international shipping will kill you. One of my friends is in Switzerland with her family for the summer and she's gonna be offline for a week, waiting.
Glad you got under the wire! Can't be without your book! And I admire your fortitude... we can wait overnight, but the next day, we're up and running.
Bummer on the order. I ordered the #5 novel in the Stephanie Plum series but it won't be here until about the 27th. I'll go nuts before then. I've already started re-reading the first four because I refuse to read #6 even though I have that one already. Might have to make a special trip to a further away bookstore to get it. Oh the agony.