Pratchett anticipation

I'm in the middle of pimping Wyrd Sisters to my coworker - I'll bring it in when she finishes her next book.

So rereading Harry Potter and the Improbable Use of Chaos Theory is more than appropriate.

Dolores Umbridge folded her arms and watched the two elderly witches look under the awful house that had killed her. She sniffed, or rather, gave an approximation of a sniff. Corporeal habits were hard to break, after all. They weren't even proper witches. No wands, hats hopelessly out of fashion, no robes over the black dresses. And the cat. Not even a first year student would take that cat on as a familiar. It was old, smelly and only had one eye and it appeared to be peeing on her boots. It was a disgrace and if she still had a wand, she'd Crucio the lot of them into next--

Her thoughts were interrupted by a noise just behind her, something that sounded very much like, "HEM, HEM."

God, I love this fic.

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Hung out at the UBookstore after work to wait for Ali, so we could close the house account. Apparently our plans were not firm, as she didn't show. I'll need to hijack Lori from her laundry tomorrow and use her to close the account. Failing that, I suppose I could beg John.

Upshot of the hour in Nirvana was that I picked up Peter David's Arthur Pendragon as Pres of the US (no, I can't be arsed to get up, walk ten feet and look at the title) which is a sequel to his Arthur Pendragon as Mayor of New York. I got five chapters in before I gave up and headed out to the bus, where I switched to Bujold's newest (it was *signed!* I *had* to!) and picked up from where I'd gotten to chapter six on the website. (Bastards at Harper-Collins will send out pre-signed editions, but won't give you an e-text of the whole thing!) Baen is still my hero.)

I've just finished it. Good story, perhaps a little slow to begin, but by the middle, I was picking up on the almost Milesian muddle of events that needed straightening out by Ista. Lovely, that. And I do adore her theology in this world, which she expanded on from the first Chalion book.