I read some of the further OZ book as a child but I did have to interlibrary loan them. Until JZ, I did not know another person my age who even knew there were books. However, Matilda's wand says "OZ" so the Princess Leia is confusing.

she's firmly slotted as Movie Character, not Book.

If I needed my favourite character to count for a very important costume day, this would not be an obstacle worth pausing for, given how many gazillion (relatively speaking) books she managed to be in.

However, even as I was reading the books with Ozma in them, I was pretty sure I wasn't fighting with anyone else to get them out of the library. I certainly hear Extended Universe events dealing with Leia talked about more than Ozma (as in, this is the first time I think I've had an Ozma conversation ever, and I read the books 30 years ago).

However, Matilda's wand says "OZ"

And the headdress too! She's doubly Oz marked!

I've read all the Oz books, but it's been so long that I probably wouldn't have remembered Ozma off the top of my head. Great idea for a costume, though!

So the nurse was running a million years (aka an hour) late, so I called her. She had entirely forgotten, it seems. I "should have called earlier" (no) and "should call her the day before" (I will, but I shouldn't--this isn't my responsibility). I have no idea how she organises even slightly successfully as many appointments as she seems to have if she doesn't, ah, write them down? Work off some sort of a schedule?

::sigh:: She's the woman who gives me the meds my doctor orders, and that's heavily in her favour, but it could be more straightforward...

Pix and I are the same in that. I read at least four of the books as a kid, but don't remember them that well.

She had entirely forgotten, it seems. I "should have called earlier" (no) and "should call her the day before" (I will, but I shouldn't--this isn't my responsibility).

Ay yai yai.

Yeah, "forgetting" is not optimal.

Ay yi yi! I guess it's a good thing you're a project manager -- you'll just have to manage her.

I just reread Glinda of Oz for the first time in decades, reading it to Matilda for the first time, and damn but that is one fine book. Crazy, but fine. Baum is totally one of those writers who just never had a single oddball idea flit through his mind and then filed it away as Too Weird To Work With. Glinda contains the Flatheads, a tribe of purple-eyed persons who carry cans of powdered brains in their pockets and are ruled by a Supreme Dictator who who stole three cans of brains from his rivals and so is now four times as smart as any other Flathead (his wife turned herself into a powerful sorceress by stealing five cans of brains, but then got turned into a pig by a rival sorceress who kept her brains safely and unstealably in her ordinary round head), the Skeezers and their submersible island, the three transfigured Adepts at Magic, the Valley of the Mist Maidens, (that's Princess Polychrome being borne up by the MMs - I think she's mostly a Sky Island character, but she does show up in a couple of Oz books as well) and the spectacularly beautiful, snarky and cheerfully misanthropic Reera the Red, who hates people in general although she seems to like the individuals she meets just fine, and who cools herself off on hot days by transfiguring herself into an orangutan because that way she can sit around mostly naked but still has hands and can keep up with her sewing. Reera is not exactly a Buffista, but I think she'd get along with a lot of us, as long as we never expected her to show up to any F2Fs.

In short, everyone should read Glinda of Oz posthaste. It'll only take an hour or so - it's a galloping quick read for grown-ups.