On Wisconsin!

[przed]

Wisconsin played UNC tonight, and wow, it was a tense, great game. The two teams kept trading the lead, and for a while I thought the Badgers were sunk, but they really pulled it off in the last five minutes. On to the Elite Eight!

In other news, we nearly had a Harry Potter emergency yesterday. Ros and I are just about to finish the Chamber of Secrets, so I popped into the big Indigo bookstore near work to pick up the Prisoner of Azkaban. Not only didn't they have it, but their database showed none of their stores in Toronto had it either. And they only had The Deathly Hallows of the other books. And they weren't taking orders online for Azkaban, and neither was Amazon. Looks like the publisher is in the middle of changing editions and we're caught in the middle.

Fortunately I called our last remaining mini-chain bookstore, and they had Azkaban and all the other Potter books at a store not too far away. So I dashed up there last night and bought the lot.

We finished reading the big climax of Chamber of Secrets tonight, and man, that was intense. We'll be on to Azkaban tomorrow. And after the Sweetie told Ros about his boss' family going to the Harry Potter park in Florida last week, she's pretty insistent that we have to go back to Florida for our family vacation next year. Awww, my budding fan.

Comments

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

That's a pleasing triumph for smaller bookshops there *g* I think you should remind Ros that some of us had to wait up to *years* between books as they first came out! (Oh dear, I'm starting the 'when I was young...' remonstrations aren't I? *g*)

Azkaban is the best book by far and away in my opinion. Although that is partly because even as a teen/child I wanted to read about adults with complex issues more than I wanted to read about teenagers.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I'm always in favour of buying from the smaller bookshops. Though there are perishingly few left and none of them are close to us.

Ros' ambition is to finish all of the books before we get to England. I have pointed out that this is extremely unlikely to happen. *g* Though I wasn't reading the books as they were coming out, I remember our neighbours' kids waiting on the porch for the special Saturday delivery of Deathly Hallows. (Canada Post made special arrangement to work on Saturday just to deliver the final book.)

My vague memory of the movie of Azkaban is that I liked it more than most of the others. Because of Oldman/Thewliss Black/Lupin, of course. *g*