Hi, bjornsnipe! Thank you so much for agreeing to participate in the Quick Questions with a Cannonballer series. Congratulations on your recent Cannonball! How did you find your way to the CBR community? My mother reads Pajiba, and saw a mention of CBR and decided to lob the URL at me. Apparently my insatiable need to read no matter where I am or what it is needed to be channeled into better outlets than keeping a list on my computer and venting at her about […]
Can I Have My Pratchett Back?
Pratchett's Women: Unauthorised Essays on the Female Characters of the Discworld by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Hoo boy. I picked this book up because I’m desperate to read anything about Discworld, and this is the book that bit me in the rear end. There are ten essays all about the feminism (or alleged lack thereof) of Discworld, so there are ten times to go into my many problems with this book. Firmly all my opinion, so results may vary from yours. 1: The Boobs, the Bad and the Broomsticks: (covering The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Wyrd […]
“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
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 […]
there need to be about a million more Death books than there are
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Hot take: Death is the best, but he’s the bestest best when he’s paired off with a human who can observe and call out the weirdness of his life Actual review: Having read Hogfather last Christmas for Book Group, I thought I’d start over again and read all of the DEATH series as I very much enjoyed Death’s characterization. And even though I already know part of how Death will turn out–e.g., we know about Susan and obviously Death still exists as Death etc–it’s still fascinating how […]
“A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.”
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
Oh, what to say about a Terry Pratchett book that can’t be summed up as “just read it!” in increasingly louder tones? AS I said in my review of Wintersmith, the worst Terry Pratchett book is better than some of the best examples of other authors’ works. And this book has to be in my opinion one of his best. Sam Vimes, Commander of the City Watch, is soon to be a father, which means perhaps chasing Carcer, one of the more dangeous of Ankh-Morpork’s […]
“A metaphor is a kind o’ lie to help people understand what’s true.”
Wintersmith: A Tiffany Aching Adventure by Terry Pratchett
Wintermsith is the third book book in the Tiffany Aching series, which is set in the Discworld universe, but is geared towards children. Tiffany is a witch in training who has caught the attention of the Wintersmith, the personification of winter, which you can kind of tell from the name. But don’t imagine some older, mature fellow; he’s more like if Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians had no idea how to be human. So on top of learning to be a witch, dealing […]
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