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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Night Watch, Part I
I mean, if anyone (who wasn’t a wizard) was going to time travel, it was always going to be Sam Vimes. Summary Vimes learns from the latest assassin in the garden that he’s off the Assassin’s Guild...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Night Watch, Part II
Happy one-day-belated Glorious 25th of May! Let’s all sit out on the steps with cups of cocoa in remembrance. (I may have done this already.) Summary Vimes begins dispensing wisdom to his younger self,...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Night Watch, Part III
Time to build the barricades… Summary Vimes wakes up with the seamstresses, who have brought him to their place to talk to Madam Meserole. She asks him a lot of questions to determine his loyalties,...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Night Watch, Part IV
Someone get this man an egg with toast cut into soldiers. And one for his newborn son. Summary Major Mountjoy-Standfast isn’t sure how to handle the “insurgents” when they’re not doing much of...
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Pratchett and Philosophy: The Tao of Sir Terry
“Build a man a fire and he’s warm for a day,” I say. “But set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.” —Jim Butcher, Cold Days (2012) That’s “Sir Terry” to...
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All the Way Down: Five of the Greatest Turtles and Tortoises in Fantasy
They’re slow. They’re steady. They win races against arrogant bunnies. Turtles and their tortoise brethren have long been fabled creatures—they may be seen as purveyors of wisdom, or transport...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: The Wee Free Men, Part I
“We willnae be fooled again!” —Roger Daltrey, probably. Summary A witch named Perspicacia Tick notes that another world is brushing theirs, but that there’s a witch in the area where it’s occurring,...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: The Wee Free Men, Part II
You can dress however you like to do the job, but you really should have a good pair of trompy old boots. Summary Once in the Queen’s kingdom, the Feegle explain that this is Fairyland to Tiffany. More...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Monstrous Regiment, Part II
To keep your chopped-off hair, or not to keep it? That is certainly… a question. Summary Polly informs Blouse of the enemy they’ve captured and Jackrum insists that he be instated as sergeant since...
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All the Easter Eggs I Found in Good Omens Season 2
When “Easter eggs” are done right, they can be so much fun. There were quite a few in the latest season of Good Omens, so I thought I’d compile all the ones I noticed. Like a scavenger hunt for your...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Monstrous Regiment, Part III
Look, Otto tried to help, but there’s only so much you can do in the middle of the forest… unless Sam Vimes is helpfully spying on you. Summary William de Worde leaves after giving a few more tips and...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Monstrous Regiment, Part IV
Did you think that kissing the Duchess meant nothing? Summary The troop grabs the washing and gets into the “elevator” with two guards, but it gets stuck. They knock the guards out and proceed through...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: A Hat Full of Sky, Part I
It’s time to settle in for a little light reading of Fairies and How to Avoid Them… Summary The story begins with some basic information on the Nac Mac Feegle from Miss Tick’s book Fairies and How to...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: A Hat Full of Sky, Part II
I would love to be at a bar when the fifty-Feegle-in-a-trenchcoat saunters in… Summary Petulia takes Tiffany to meet the other girls, who are all led (and constantly belittled) by Annagramma Hawkins....
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: A Hat Full of Sky, Part III
It’s time for the Witch Trials! (not those Witch Trials, don’t worry) Summary Tiffany goes to do Miss Level’s rounds with Mistress Weatherwax and finds the villagers much more inclined to listen to the...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Going Postal, Part I
Genuinely curious as to how you decide to grace your readers with a protagonist named “Moist” like that’s no big deal. I’m sorry, Moist, I’d change my name too. (I did, in fact, and my name was...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Going Postal, Part II
All right, pinheads! Wait, it only just now occurred to me that he repurposed a (relatively mild) pejorative. Nice. Summary Groat has Stanley run an errand for him. A very drunk Crispin Horsefry shows...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Going Postal, Part III
Why would you ever ride an angry horse bareback?? I don’t even ride horses, but even I know that the only question here is why. Summary Moist makes it to Sto Lat on Boris in record time, names the...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Going Postal, Part IV
Okay, but the fake broomstick is maybe my favorite part of this whole thing… Summary Moist is woken by Lord Vetinari, who has seen the paper: The Post Office made a bet that it could deliver faster to...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Thud! Part I
Vimes doesn’t much care for the game the book is named after… wonder if that’ll be relevant somehow. Summary There are historical texts and translations around early dwarf and troll cultures. And then...
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