Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I understand why everyone recommends these Pratchetts; they’re… gold! (#Money!)

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

Making Money by Terry Pratchett

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Continuing on my quest to read through Terry Pratchett’s marvelous Discworld series (why did I not start before two years ago?!). They are perfect palate cleansers for heavier books or for when I just need a good laugh. I am almost through all the Watch books now (my favourites), and decided to listen to the audiobooks for some of Pratchett’s later ‘industrial revolution’ novels featuring the brilliantly named Moist von Lipwig: Going Postal and Making Money–the latter of which makes this a perfect match for the […]

“Morituri Nolumus Mori … Er, roughly speaking, it means, ‘We who are about to die don’t want to.’”

The Last Hero (Discworld, #27) by Terry Pratchett

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It’s been a while since I’ve visited the Discworld. I usually try to read two or three a year, but I only managed to read one in 2019. Plus I had to track down a copy of this since my library didn’t have it, and then I never got around to reading it over the summer like I was supposed to. As always, should have read it sooner. This book tickled me. This is actually considered the 27th full book of the series, despite it […]

A decidedly average Pratchett

Pyramids by Terry Pratchett

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Another year, another book down on my meandering tour through Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. This time it was Pyramids, which I had high hopes for because it was published around the same time as Mort, which was great, and Guards! Guards!, the perfection of which is only muted by the fact that Men at Arms and Feet of Clay are even better. Pyramids was… eh. It was fine. There were some funny moments. I listened to it on audiobook, and as usual enjoyed Nigel Planer’s narration. The story is about Pteppic, the […]

Humour with a deep understanding of Hollywood

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

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I have been trying to complete as much of Discworld as I can, I find Sir Terry Pratchett’s humour incomparable, his keen understanding of us poor souls trapped in human form (I’d love to be an umbrella myself, if given the option to choose my next form) and his ability to write droll descriptions of commonplace objects fascinating and very absorbing; for instance – banged out grains (popcorn) and a silver screen (literally described as a hovering dense film). This book is about the rise […]

It is well known that eight colors make up white.

Eric by Terry Pratchett

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This is my second foray into Discworld, and where the first novel I read felt big in scope and purpose, this one feel decidedly small. For one, this novel is about half the length of the first in the series The Color of Magic, and for a second one, this one feels very much like we spend the whole of the novel in same room. It’s not quite true, but it’s something. Throughout the book, from the epigraph from Faust to the literally crossed word Faust (and replaced […]

“?” said the stranger.

The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

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So I’ve never read any of the Discworld novels, and I think I’ll be reading some of them now. I have access to a number of them on Overdrive and the libraries around me have quite a few of them as well. Last night at Thanksgiving dinner, my in-laws were talking about Flat Earthers and talking about scientific belief and how one of the reasons why it takes hold is that here we were, a group of reasonably intelligent people not really knowing the science […]



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