Booking Through Thursday (47) Extremes
Booking Through Thursday is a weekly bookish meme where participants are asked a series of questions about their reading habits. To join this or future Booking Through Thursdays Click Here . This Week BTT Asks: What’s the furthest you’ve ever gone to get something to read? (Think extremes as well as miles.) If your absolute favorite author (living or dead) was coming out with a brand new book tomorrow, how far would you go, what would you do to get a copy? I think the craziest thing I've done to obtain a book I wanted was attend midnight releases for them. I remember my very first midnight release was for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I had to drive over an hour to the nearest Waldenbooks to pick up my copy as they were the only store a reasonable distance doing a midnight launch. I can remember clearly how the line was filled mostly with bored parents waiting to pick up copies, a far cry from the fun festivities I had seen other stores do for previ...