So, I’ll just be over here. Crying and laughing and hating the world and loving the world and just being a person. Yep.

It’s still in its wrapping paper.

It’s been sitting next to me all day so I can grab it at midnight, rip open the paper, and start reading.

I’ve discovered that it’s not good to have it within sight, because that thing is tempting!!

But no, I will not read it until January 10. I will not open it until midnight. I CAN DO THIS!

effyeahnerdfighters:

This afternoon, while shopping at my local bookstore with my sister, I was shocked to discover four copies of TFiOS on the shelves! Blue and white and shiny, with a pretty yellow “Signed by the Author” sticker on the front. (My non-Nerdfighter sister was confused by my reaction and pointed out that if it was a book I wanted, I should buy one of those copies because “they’re signed ones”. Lol.) I trotted back to the front desk to speak to an employee and explained about the secrecy campaign and the author’s wishes, and she checked online for the release date and consulted her manager. Turns out the manager knew about the embargo and was just as surprised as I was that the books were on the shelves! Apparently they had arrived that very day without an invoice, and as there were no instructions stating otherwise, the person who’d unpacked it had just gone ahead and shelved them. The manager thanked me sincerely for pointing it out and promptly swept up the four copies and carried them off to a back room.

Anyhow, having had this experience, I’d like to encourage Nerdfighters to keep their eyes peeled at their own local bookstores over the next few days and to make sure that said bookstores keep TFiOS off their shelves until the 10th! Mistakes and miscommunications happen, but we can all help keep the internet as spoiler-free as possible. :-)

[Submitted by velociraptorwithaquillpen]

ATTN Nerdfighters: ^ ^ ^

schrodingers-wallet:

My copy of TFIOS is supposed to get here next wendsday. Gonna be so hard to resist the urge to read it. 

I highly recommend wrapping paper. Prevents you from opening the book early, and gives you a fun gift to open on January 10th.