I have an idea!

[sorcyress]

Alright, so, since I just finished rereading the first Harry Potter book (Since the last one is coming out on the 21st of July and if you didn't know that I think you must live under a rock) and since there has to be some sort of exceptionally dork-tastic party to celebrate, who would be interested in the idea of having a huge group of people congrugate at my house release night and reading the damn book aloud to each other until we've either finished it or all fallen asleep.

I'm thinking it would be a sort of "everybody charges off to whatever bookstore they're getting a copy from and then meets back at The Empty City, books in hand, so that we can begin reading." Plus, that way you negate any arguments between who gets to read it first in such a family.

Dress code would either be "come in your house colours" or "come in your comfy pyjamas". I haven't quite decided yet.

Yeah. Is this a good idea y/n?

~Sor
MOOP!

Comments

[werewulf.livejournal.com]

Well your mom says this is a good idea as long as it's not the day that we drive to Maine to visit Niko on changeover day..... I'll have to check that.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

That would be most bogus if they were the same.

Glad for your permission. *grin!*

~Sor

[marcmagus]

Good idea.

Your house is named after Andy Looney's book?

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

I'd check the timing to make sure it's not vice versa :)

[marcmagus]

Well, it was phrased as a question...

You make a fair point.

[heptadecagram.livejournal.com]

Couldn't be vice versa; Andy wrote the first part of it while he was in college with werewulf, and she didn't move into the house until after kdsorceress was born.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Meep! That was completely mind-boggling that you caught that. Just how much Looney-lore do you know, anyways?

Yes, we are indeed named after Andy's book. I don't recall if it was mum or Andy who did the actual naming, but somewhere along the way, it was determined that, because we have a huge amount of cool, perpetually single, people hanging out here all the time, we were the Empty City.

You're neat.

~Sor

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

I like that idea.

Oooh ooh ooh addendum to your idea (which you might have thought of and just not written out here, I dunno): How about, if there's enough people, each person is a character (possibly switching every chapter or something) and reads that character's lines?

Y!

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

I think it'd be a fun idea, but A: lead to arguments (I wanna be Hermione! No, *I* wanna be Hermione!) (Though that's negated by the switching every few chapters idea) and B: be a little bit confusing. Plus, for me at least, it's a lot easier to listen to something being read then trying to read along with and catch "lines" in time --especially if you can't highlight all your lines to keep track of them.

Y?

~Sor

[(Anonymous)]

You asked y/n? I said Y.

Those are good points. It definitely would be hard to keep track of lines without highlighting. Hmm. I dunno. Just an idea.

[la-vie-cynique.livejournal.com]

*waves* I would totally do that. I might even be able to, considering it's Harry Potter.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Ahem: Schwing. I got a good response, so the more people interested, the more likely we'd be able to pull it off.

~Sor

[la-vie-cynique.livejournal.com]

*bounces* Sch-weet!

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter or no, anything that involves a bunch of cool people hanging out, reading, and probably cuddling in pyjamas is a win for me.

[heptadecagram.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeee! Countmeincountmeincountmein!!

[mysticturtle.livejournal.com]

Sounds fabulous. Can I bring friends?

And I vote for house colors. Ravenclaw represent!!