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.

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[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Azkaban is where it all starts to get very interesting, and where I arrived: it had just come out in hardback, and the local shops were promoting the first two in paperback heavily. Clearly to hook people in time for the hardback. It worked on me :) I read the first and then went out and bought the next two. And then realised I had a long wait ahead of me for the next!

I hope she has as much fun with them as I do! (Although if she races through them so fast, hmm, the later books' complexity and themes might take some work?)

Are you watching the films as well, or are they for after you have read all the books?

[przed.livejournal.com]

I definitely looking forward to the appearances of Black and Lupin in Azkaban.

She's definitely enjoying them loads. Though I'm curious to see how she does with the later ones.

Our M.O. is to read the book and then watch the movie. (Win/win for us! Suddenly she's keen on both reading and movies!) I'm already looking forward to revisiting Branagh's Gilderoy Lockhart. He was so good at playing such a nob. *g*