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.

[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?

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

You *will* be going to FL again... :-)

You know, I never got past book #4 / movie #1. Not because I didn't like them - they were fine - but I wasn't obsessed while everyone else was (and this was after trying book #1 in French). Guess I was waiting for things to calm down.

I always meant to get back to it... and you're making me think it might be about time. ;-)

And yeah for smaller bookstores! Go, przed :nods:

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I get most of my books from abebooks.com

They have thousands and the prices are reasonable most of the time.

Have fun reading!

[forthewistful.livejournal.com]

I love it how Ros seems to become a bigger Harry Potter fan each day. It must be wonderful to slowly grow into that world. Part of me wishes I had still been a girl when I started reading the books, but alas, I've been in my early twens (I managed to avoid it all for about four years after the first book had first been released). And enjoyed it a lot all the same. Well, most of it.

Only recently I made my parents watch the DVDs (meaning: I sat down and watched every film with them so that I could jump in with further explanation where necessary. It's been a lot of fun. And they both finally understood why so many people are such big fans of that series that they even queued up for the books in the middle of the night.

Have fun reading!

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Yay, Badgers! I read about that game this morning--it must have been wonderful to watch. Well, wonderful given the way it turned out. *g*

Eek for the near-catastrophe! I'm really surprised that they didn't have it in stock. I see what you say about changing editions, but...man.

I read all the books, slowly, at the insistence of my nieces and nephew. *g* I enjoyed them, but I likely wouldn't have read them all on my own. According to my second niece and nephew, the Harry Potter park is highly enjoyable. They really liked the Butter Beer.

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

It's fun to read about the growing fan girl. :D

I never got into Harry Potter myself, my main experience with the books was selling them but I do think they're great books for kids because they're not dumbed down.