Follow Friday #32

Thanks to Parajunkee and Alison Can Read for hosting Follow Friday every week!

Q: What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done to get your hands on any particular book?

I don't think I've ever done anything crazy. When Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix came out my mom, brother, and I went to Borders at probably 6:00 the night before to wait for the midnight release. My mom even dressed like a witch. LoL. The Hansel and Gretel kind. It was great. 

Covers Around the World: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

In honor of my Follow Friday post and my IMM post this past Sunday, I decided this weeks CAtW should be:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Yay! Have I mentioned how much I love Harry Potter?

Cuz I do.

Ok, here we go.

I want to say that ^ is the UK edition. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is another UK edition of the cover. Gorgeous.

German Cover. I like how they added the Chamber of Secrets in this one too.

Italian cover. I like how Harry sticks out on this one, but if you look around the rest of the cover you find different pictures that make up the story as well.

Spanish Cover. Love how the prophecies were included in this one. And how it shows him looking over his shoulder and running.

French Cover. I think it's cool how it's hand drawn and includes Harry, Ron, & Hermione all. Not just Harry.

This is the Flemish cover. I think it's bright and vibrant and I love how it has the Thestrals on it!

I think my favorite is the on the copy that I have. But that's just because that's the one that I've been staring at since I got it (er, now it's since i found it hiding in my shed and since I bought it on tape!). I think Mary GrandPre is a fabulous artist and you should check her out and the rest of her artwork for the series! It's fun to look at! 

In My Mailbox #21

A big thank you to Kristi, The Story Siren for hosting IMM every week.

I've been lucky two weeks in a row to have something to post on Sunday! This past week my library was having a book sale (well, really books/cds/dvds/videos and BOOKS ON TAPE!).

So I'm looking around to see what they've got and what to my wandering eyes did appear?

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. On Tape! And you want to know how much I paid for it? All 14 cassettes of it?

Drumroll please............... 50 cents.

How sweet is that? I've got three out of the seven books on audio cassette now. Only four more to go to complete my collection! And I'm really excited. I mean seriously... who just decides to give that up for 50 cents? Not that I'm complaining or anything. But still.

I totally love Jim Dale as a narrator. I know I've said that before. He made me like listening to books on tape/cd. And there's just something.... magical about his voice. Does that make me weird? Probably. But if you haven't LISTENED to Harry Potter on tape or CD I highly suggest you do so. It's wonderful.

What did you get this week?