So close... and yet so far
A couple of days after we pre-ordered our copies of HP and the Deathly Hallows JK Rowling announced on her website she's planning on doing a midnight reading and then meet 1700 randomly selected fans and sign their books (which will be given to them free of charge).
You can only imagine my happiness upon reading - in my mind I was not only in London for the release of the final book, but also had the opportunity to meet JK Rowling and talk to her (needless to say have the book signed!). As she does very few book signings these days, such books are quite rare and people are prepared to pay ridiculously huge amounts of money (around $3000) for a signed copy.
The fact that you had to submit an application and then wait for a computer to randomly select 1700 fans (out of all the applicants) didn't seem to bother me. In my mind I was already a winner. I was already there, triumphant.
Then I read that you had to be a British resident and show your passport upon entering the room where signing will occur.
Now, again, what are black market prices for British passports?
Labels: Harry Potter, london
4 Comments:
Lol, saj sploh ne vem ali je tvoja ideja o britanskem potnem listu bolj odtrgana kot pa moja, da nameravam narociti knjigo preko amazona in dati za dostavni naslov nek švedski hostel, ker sem ravno ob izidu tam na počitnicah in ne vem če bom zdržala do 30. julija ko pridem domov. Sem jim že poslala e-mail če je to možno, saj me potem ceneje pride tudi poštnina.
In? So ti kaj odgovorili?
Z božjo pomočjo (skoraj) se mi je uspelo prijaviti na Midnight signing in že trdno stiskam pesti, da bom izbrana. Osebi, ki mi je pomagala, še enkrat lepa hvala.
Tud jaz močno stiskam pesti zate in ti želim da si pod eno od tistih srečno naključno izbrano številko.
Meni so pa zadeve z dostavo malce kompiciiral in sem se sprijaznila, da ga bom prebrala šele začetek avgusta doma (če mi ne bo ravno v glavo skočil iz kakšne švedske knjigarne in se ne bom mogla zadržati, da bi ga kupila, kljub temu da me bo doma čakal še en izvod). Najbolj me skrbi, da mi bo kakšna sitna goflja prej razkrila konec predno bom zadevo prebrala.
Hvala, Andrejka. Če nas bo dosti takih, se mi morda uresničijo sanje. :)
Jaz si bom za vsak slučaj s sabo vzela čepke za ušesa. Če se bo kdo na cesti začel dreti "Harry dies!" ga ne bom slišala. Vsaj upam, da ne. :))
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