Maxigumee

But still…. SCREAM! I’m totally excited. The covers are really terrible, though. I think the American one looks a bit too sketchy and too much like an overly dramatic Lord-of-The-Rings-type viking sci-fi/fantasy story. I think that the English children’s version looks like a crappy “Choose Your Own Adventure!” paperback directed towards kids between ages of five and eight. The UK adult edition seems to be, once again, the only good-looking one. Still, it doesn’t really say much about the book, and that makes it kind of dull. For Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix, my family owns all three editions. I ordered the adult one from Canada, we got the American one at a midnight Harry Potter party, and I got the children’s edition for my birthday from friends of our family.

I’m not sure which one I’m going to choose this year. I’d like to have them all, to add to my collection of foreign Harry Potter books (yes, I’m that much of a Harry Potter freak. I even take my Harry Potter lunch box to school), but I think one’s good enough to start off with. Even though I said that the adult UK/Canada version is the prettiest, the Canadian and English books are not made as well as the American ones. The print is also smaller and there are no illustrations. Since my second favorite is the American version, I think I’d prefer that one.

There’s just one problem. I want to go to a midnight Harry Potter sale. The one I went to at a local bookstore at the release of the last Harry Potter book was REALLY fun. This year, however, my family is renting out a cottage in the Thousand Islands for a week in July, and before that we are going to Quebec. If I’ve got my dates straight, we will not be around to go to an AMERICAN midnight Harry Potter party. This means that I will most likely be stuck buying the Canadian version, since Quebec is in Canada (duh), and the closest bookstore to where we are staying in the Thousand Islands, I believe is ALSO in Canada. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?! I could have the American book mailed to the cottage where we are staying, but I want it at EXACTLY MIDNIGHT the night it comes out! And then I want to have a Harry Potter party the next day! (I told you I was obsessed.)

I really hope that my Obsessive-Compulsiveness is not a problem this time. Last Harry Potter book, it took me like three months to finish, because of (1) me procrastinating, and (2), me worrying that if I didn’t reread that last sentence at least ten more times, that I would BURN IN HELL for the rest of eternity.

It also didn’t help that I found out what happened way before I finished the book. Or that everybody I knew basically finished it the day it came out. Chloe finished it in like five… or three hours. My other friend, called me after he had spent the entire day in his closet reading it to tell me that, “HE DIES!” Yes, people are mean.

Perhaps I should buy the book on CD, anyway. I’m probably going to have a ton of summer reading to do on top of that. And I’m terrible at getting any sort of reading done. I really hope that the American version looks better in person than it does online. The Order of The Phoenix did.