Plane trips are fantastic for catching up on my reading. I'm all set, now, for next week's book club discussion of Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. From Publisher's Weekly:In Maguire's Oz, Elphaba, better known as the Wicked Witch of the West, is not wicked; nor is she a formally schooled witch. Instead, she's an insecure, unfortunately green Munchkinlander who's willing to take radical steps to unseat the tyrannical Wizard of Oz. Using an appropriately brusque voice for the always blunt Elphaba, McDonough relates her tumultuous childhood (spent with an alcoholic mother and a minister father) and eye-opening school years (when she befriends her roommate, Glinda).
The Wizard of Oz film will never be the same!
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