Tiffany Aching's adventures in Wintersmith have attracted the notice of an old enemy to witches, the Cunning Man, and she has to deal with that along with her relationship with Roland and her relationship to the people of the Chalk now that she's their witch and not just little Tiffany Aching ( Read more... )

I skipped the other Watch books between Feet of Clay (partially read) and this one, largely because the Watch kind of annoys me. Don't get me wrong; I love Vimes. But Carrot doesn't interest me much, and Pratchett seems to use the Watch books to get in messages about sexism and racism that are well-meaning but do not take power differentials and ( Read more... )

Moist von Lipwig is a con man blessed with an unmemorable face. Alas, that wasn't enough to keep him out of Vetinari's prisons, and he's going to hang in the morning. Then Vetinari offers him the chance to live and reform Ankh-Morpork's ramshackle postal system (the offices are literally buried in mail), and Moist finds himself conning more people ( Read more... )

I think this is up there with Lords and Ladies and Hogfather as one of my favorite Discworld books ( Read more... )

It was rather neat reading this right after meeting my first Omnian priest in the form of Mightily Oats in Carpe Jugulum! I only wish I remembered more of what Mightily Oats quoted Brutha as saying, to compare with what Brutha actually says ( Read more... )

Upon the birth of his daughter, King Verence of Lancre decides to have a giant party. Unfortunately, this means he decides to invite Omnian priest Mightily Oats and the Magpyr family, which in turn sets off Nanny Ogg, who takes issues with Omnian past practices of setting so-called witches on fire (the real witches got away, of course), and Granny ( Read more... )

Mau is going through his nation's ritual to become a man, but when he sails back from Boy Island, he discovers that the entire village and nation have been wiped out by a giant wave. Also there is the shipwrecked Daphne, who finds that all her training to be a British lady has taught her absolutely nothing useful. Soon, more survivors of the ( Read more... )

And we continue to be All Pratchett, All the Time!

Let us not talk about my sleeping habits or what I am not doing in lieu of gobbling down Discworld.

I really loved this one. Not as much as Lords and Ladies because I didn't like this one's ending as much, but this had me giggling like a maniac on the train. I think right now the Witches books ( Read more... )

Vimes is about to retire from the Guard, only before he can, he and Carrot have to solve a series of mysteries regarding a strange weapon that fires lead projectiles really, really fast. And we find out a wee bit more about that birthmark Carrot has...

I liked this, but I didn't like it quite as much as Guards! Guards. Part of this was because ( Read more... )

Someone stop me! I am eating these up like candy. I don't know what it is, except I just don't feel up to reading anything angsty, emotionally significant, or serious right now, much less anything with a complicated plot ( Read more... )