I recently decided to get back into audiobooks to listen to while going to the gym. The gym is not my idea of fun, so I wanted something that would be–well, fun! I’ve been meaning to read Pratchett for years now, having only read (and loved) Good Omens before this. Guards! Guards! was one of the ones people recommended starting with. Luckily the audiobook was available on my library’s Overdrive, so I downloaded and gave it a chance. The story opens with the Grand Master of […]
Crivens! The Start of One of the Best Discworld Subseries
A note: this review, or any review I write of a Terry Pratchett book, will be biased. That’s because Terry Pratchett is my favorite writer of all time. This note is especially true for my favorite subseries of the Discworld books, which is a tie between Tiffany Aching and the Watch books. I share a deep kinship with Tiffany Aching, you see. She is so much like me when I was a child, and plenty like me now, too. A bit in love with words […]
CBR Bingo: White Whale
I feel like I am going to catch some grief for having Good Omens as my White Whale but I purchased it in November of last year and started it three times before finally completing the whole thing while on the beach last week. Unfortunately I was also drinking rum cocktails while I read so I may be a little foggy on the complete story. Good Omens is quite the literary achievement; the two authors, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, have a seamless flow and you never get the […]
Oh, the humanity!
#CBR10Bingo Cannonballer Says This book was a gift from cannonballer Malin in the 2017 book exchange and was also recently recommended by Lowercasesee in Quick Questions with a Cannonballer. For my first review of CBR10, I read Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather and loved it for its wit, humor and wisdom. Malin had sent the book as part of the CBR9 book exchange, and she included Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens in the package. Let me just say this: I am a fan of Pratchett for […]
Classic Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters is pure Terry Pratchett all the way. Classic Pratchett means puns and quirks and oddball images, odder characters and even villains you cannot help but love (sometimes). There are story lines that intermingle and must be paid attention to as they will take you on different paths than expected. I must admit while the Wyrd Sisters themselves have been favorites in other books, in this one they could get a little draining. The lack of intelligence with characters is always an issue with […]
Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong
I love musicals and I like Opera. I love Phantom of the Opera and I love great female characters with ambition. Of course Terry Pratchett’s going to combine all this into one perfect little book. Granny and Nanny are witches in a coven who’ve recently lost their third witch. Unfortunately they discover that you really need the third witch to balance stuff out, so they come up with a plan to recruit Agnes Nitt to be part of their little gang. You needed at least […]
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