Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Do you follow the Beast or your better angels?

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

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Cbr17bingo N Every time I read a Pratchett novel, I am just awestruck, dumbfounded by the way he could write so eloquently and with such warmth and humor about some of the nastiest parts of the human condition. Night Watch, originally published in 2002, really hit me hard because it is just so weirdly timely. I read and reviewed Guards! Guards! (the first of the Watch novels) last year, and I know that there are several other books in the Watch series before Night Watch. […]

The best Discworld book? Maybe! #CBRBINGO – Old Series

Night Watch (Discworld, #29) by Terry Pratchett

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Once again I am about to write an inferior review of a Terry Pratchett book. The problem is compounded here because this is the best Discworld book I’ve read so far. The better the Pratchett book, the more it speaks to me, the more incapable I am of articulating why I loved it so much. I just get so overwhelmed. There couldn’t be a worse time for Sam Vimes to accidentally time travel. He’s literally about to be a father at any moment, and he’s […]

This review has been approved for distribution as conducive to the cause of Light -The Night Watch

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Target: Sergei Lukyanenko’s Night Watch.  Translated by Andrew Bromfield Profile: Urban Fantasy, Suspense, Horror, The Watches Pentalogy (Read in stereotypical movie preview voiceover) In a world where epic battles between good and evil are a dime a dozen on the Teen Fantasy shelves, one Russian author struggles to bring a sense of subtly and realism to stories about vampires, werewolves and wizards.  (End voiceover)  And that’s to his credit.  Lukyanenko’s vision of a supernatural world where nothing is as it seems sounds trite on paper, but […]



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