Get Obsessed and Stay Obsessed
As many of you probably know, the new John Irving novel, Until I Find You, will be hitting stores tomorrow. So I made a few phone calls today to figure out how to get my grubby mitts on a copy at the earliest possible opportunity.
My first call was to The Strand, because, well, it's the Strand. Having an excuse to go there is never a bad thing. I'd live there if I could.
The kind folks at the Strand were very helpful, but informed me that if I really wanted to have the earliest possible copy, I should have called them about a month ago, because they typically get a number of advance copies of new books that customers can reserve if they call far enough in advance. As it stands now, there are 11 people on the waiting list for Until I Find You and they don't expect to have copies in tomorrow.
I'm such a Strand groupie that I feel incredibly sheepish not knowing this. But I certainly know it now, and will apply this knowledge to future anticipated novel purchases. I mean, obviously, for, like, Harry Potter books, this isn't going to work, but they said they generally get advance copies of nearly anything on the next highest rung of the literary pecking order.
As far as my immediate Irving cravings are concerned, the Barnes and Noble in the Citigroup Center, a mere half mile from my office, anticipates receiving 252 copies of Until I Find You, and will have the shelves fully stocked when they open at 7 a.m. tomorrow. It'll even be 20% off the cover price. I like my sleep, and I have a big reading coming up tomorrow, so I won't be there right at 7, but I'll certainly be there at 8:30ish.
Incidentally, I really hope this book is awesome, or at least better than The Fourth Hand, and not just because I don't want to think Irving is getting complacent, but also because the cover art would make a really cool tattoo.
My first call was to The Strand, because, well, it's the Strand. Having an excuse to go there is never a bad thing. I'd live there if I could.
The kind folks at the Strand were very helpful, but informed me that if I really wanted to have the earliest possible copy, I should have called them about a month ago, because they typically get a number of advance copies of new books that customers can reserve if they call far enough in advance. As it stands now, there are 11 people on the waiting list for Until I Find You and they don't expect to have copies in tomorrow.
I'm such a Strand groupie that I feel incredibly sheepish not knowing this. But I certainly know it now, and will apply this knowledge to future anticipated novel purchases. I mean, obviously, for, like, Harry Potter books, this isn't going to work, but they said they generally get advance copies of nearly anything on the next highest rung of the literary pecking order.
As far as my immediate Irving cravings are concerned, the Barnes and Noble in the Citigroup Center, a mere half mile from my office, anticipates receiving 252 copies of Until I Find You, and will have the shelves fully stocked when they open at 7 a.m. tomorrow. It'll even be 20% off the cover price. I like my sleep, and I have a big reading coming up tomorrow, so I won't be there right at 7, but I'll certainly be there at 8:30ish.
Incidentally, I really hope this book is awesome, or at least better than The Fourth Hand, and not just because I don't want to think Irving is getting complacent, but also because the cover art would make a really cool tattoo.
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When you're picking up your book at the Citicorp B&N, be sure to look at the office building across the street and wave hello to me.
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