Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

BINGO! Finally

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

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Any time I don’t know what to read, I revert to Pratchett. There’s something comforting about the characters and the setting, of knowing you’re going back to a place that will both make you laugh and make you think. So I knew as soon as I saw the “old series” square, that it would have to be a Pratchett. I read Unseen Academicals  for the first time back in 2012. I had not yet returned to the shining ivory tower of professional academia, but I […]

It’s Apocalyptic!

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I wanted to read this book for a while.  I love Neil Gaiman but I’ve never read Terry Pratchett and this seemed like the best of both worlds.  In high school, I steered very clear of Pratchett.  He was far too uncool for me.  Now that I read fantasy and science fiction so much it seems odd that I ever held such an opinion.  Needless to say, this book has been on my list for a while. This is also one of the first audiobooks […]

Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

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It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a treat Good Omens is. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett will also tell you how much of a treat it is. They will tell you in their introduction and their afterward how much they wrote it for the love of it […]

A Long Trip in a Zepplin

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This is the first Terry Pratchett book that I’ve read not getting five stars, and there’s a part of me that feels bad about it, but this books just didn’t hit it for me. Maybe it was the fact that I listened to it on audio and it literally took me three weeks. Maybe it was too science fiction. Maybe it was just a little downright boring in some sections. Either way…. The Long Earth is a fantastic concept; there’s datem earth…our earth, but marching […]

The Asides Are the Best

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I’m on a Pratchett kick right now, going through and reminding myself how much I adore the Discworld books. I did a close-read for my MFA on “Lords and Ladies”, and even though my paper was based on how Pratchett expertly weaves Celtic folklore in with his parody of a “Midsummer’s Night’s Dream”, I found the things I really enjoy about Pratchett’s writing are his glorious, humorous, and bountiful asides. “Lords and Ladies” follows Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg as they battle a mythical force […]



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