A. has been a little depressed since coming back to the UK and missing the constant communication the telephone in the U.S. brings to her friends. So I took a vacation day today so we could go to London for the 8:00am release of the latest book in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. If you haven’t heard of these books, they have reached Harry Potter-level popularity, but mostly with teenage girls.
We left the house at 5:30am for our brisk twenty minute walk to the tube station. Is it really August because I could see my breath this morning? We arrived in front of the Oxford Street Borders store at about 7:15am to stand in line with lots of other girls, some in costume. Some people passing on the street asked what we were waiting for.
When the doors opened A. got practically trampled trying to get a copy and stand in line. We then went up to the second floor of the bookstore for Breaking Dawn related events all of the girls were piled on the sofas with their faces buried in their newly acquired copies. I’ve never seen a group read like that before. A. was waiting to start reading hers until we got home. Of course once we got on the train home, she couldn't resist reading a few twenty pages.
We left the house at 5:30am for our brisk twenty minute walk to the tube station. Is it really August because I could see my breath this morning? We arrived in front of the Oxford Street Borders store at about 7:15am to stand in line with lots of other girls, some in costume. Some people passing on the street asked what we were waiting for.
When the doors opened A. got practically trampled trying to get a copy and stand in line. We then went up to the second floor of the bookstore for Breaking Dawn related events all of the girls were piled on the sofas with their faces buried in their newly acquired copies. I’ve never seen a group read like that before. A. was waiting to start reading hers until we got home. Of course once we got on the train home, she couldn't resist reading a few twenty pages.
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