Yay!! Now I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to buy it--do I sign up at the local Borders, who had an amusing if small-scale fan party before handing out copies at midnight when I got OotP, or do I order it through Amazon and then go and enjoy the crowds in Oak Park like I did with ChiKat for HBP (which was a blast!). Oak Park has a massive blocks-wide celebration when any new HP book comes out. They turn their shopping district into "Diagon Alley," with "Quidditch" games and Human Chess in the park, the stores all renaming themselves after various Diagon Alley stores, and tons and tons of people. Very fun to watch, that's for sure!
And, we can all go see OotP that night to prepare, since it's coming out the week before. All Harry, all the time, in mid-July--get ready for the media onslaught now!
Now I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to buy it
As the employee of one, I'm contractually (and, morally) obliged to say "Support your local independent bookstore!" if at all possible.
I would totally go tot hat and totally dress up for it, too!!!
I'm preordering from amazon.ca. I'm a purist, and they use the same text as the UK editions.
Beyond that, it depends on geography
I thought books were underlined and movies italicised. Where's our style guide?
We don't trust the style guide. It speaks against gauchos.
Nothing's underlined, according to the Chicago Manual of Style. Books, films, TV shows -- all italicized. A specific episode of a TV show would be in quotation marks, as would a song off a particular CD (and the CD itself would be italicized).
t /pedant
Note that I am a pedant who doesn't bother to actually code her posts to italicize the title of mentioned book.
I think MLA style underlines book titles.
The underlining is an MLA thing. APA also uses itals, and quote marks for a smaller segment of something that would go in itals.
