Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“You take a bunch of people who don’t seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.” (Bingo)

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

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Nowhere Book Bingo 2025: A book with LGBTQIA-rep CBR17 Bingo: Border (this book is all about a very drawn-out war with borders between the opposing countries constantly changing, depending on who’s currently winning) Spoiler warnings for a 22 year old book. I don’t think I can review it well without revealing some of the more essential plot points. Official plot summary: It began as a sudden strange fancy… Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers […]

Once Upon a Time in Holy Wood

Eric by Terry Pratchett

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

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  CBR Bingo: Red (Eric) CBR Bingo: Arts (Moving Pictures) I’m continuing my (almost) in-order read of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series with the ninth and tenth books, Eric and Moving Pictures. Eric is the fourth book in the subseries focusing on the Wizards of Unseen University (it’s got some slight references to the events of Sourcery, but it can likely be read without having read that one previously). Moving Pictures is technically a standalone but does feature quite a few reoccurring characters (with Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, an […]

Thunder rolled… It rolled a six.

Pyramids by Terry Pratchett

Guards! Guards by Terry Pratchett

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CBR Bingo: Favourite (Pyramids is a new-to-me book in a favourite series, Discworld) CBR Bingo: ‘G’ (Guards! Guards!) Pyramids and Guards! Guards! are the latest in a series of reviews I’m doing of Terry Pratchett’s forty-books-plus Discworld series. They are the seventh and eighth books, respectively, and while Pyramids is a relative standalone (to my recollection, the only reoccurring character in this one was Death, and only briefly), Guards! Guards! is the first in a sub-series focussing on the characters of Ankh-Morpork’s Night Watch guardsmen. I haven’t read Pyramids […]

“All hail wossname, who shall be king here, after”

Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

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CBR Bingo: School (Sourcery is set at the Unseen University, a college for wizards (although not much actual learning goes on)) CBR Bingo: Arts (I’m counting theatre as being artsy, a key component to Wyrd Sisters are actors and plays, and how they can impact public perception of events) I’d recently read the first three books in the Discworld series, and have decided to keep going in publication order, rather than breaking it up by sub-series. Sort of. I’ve read the Death novels too recently to want to re-read […]

Crivens!

Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

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Cbr17bingo Borrow Wintersmith is the third book in Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series. Tiffany is a girl who knows about making cheese and tending sheep and who also happens to be a witch. Despite her young age, she has demonstrated extraordinary abilities and attracted the attention of other witches, who have taken her on to teach her how to use her skills. The first two books were outstanding. They were full of action, danger and wild adventures, and they introduced the reader to the Nac […]

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. […]



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