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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 with Eric) on every single page, we are meant to understand that this novel is […]

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12/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:668 |

“?” 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 behind some of the questions under attack by those anti-intellectual movements. I think I know […]

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11/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:655 |

Not the most Pratchetty of Pratchetts, but solid

Eric by Terry Pratchett

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A friend recommended the podcast Myths & Legends, and I chose to start with the two-part episode on Faust and Mephistopheles, because I have a sculpture of those two that I absolutely love (pictured). The episode was great, and inspired me to reread Pratchett’s Eric, which has barely anything to do with the Faust story, but is still a damn fun ride. Eric is a horny teen gothling, trying to summon a demon to grant him all his wishes. Rincewind is a terrible wizard (in that he’s bad at it, not that he’s a Great and Terrible Wizard) who was stuck […]

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11/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:23 |

CBR11Bingo: The Collection & Reader’s Choice — BLACKOUT!

A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction by Terry Pratchett

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land

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Woohoo! I’ve got a blackout board and I’m almost completely caught up on reviews (10 left after this one). A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction by Terry Pratchett I don’t normally read or really enjoy short stories, so this is definitely a good example of Bingo making us broaden our horizons! I found this short story collection by searching “collection” on Overdrive. I had thought I might reread some Stephen King or Neil Gaimen short stories, but when I saw this Terry Prachett selection, I was sold. “Short stories always seem to cost me blood, and I envy […]

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9/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:175 |

“Where do you get coins like that?” “In Pairs.” (double bingo, Two heads are better than one)

Mort by Terry Pratchett

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Despite having read The Color of Magic my first day of college, adoring Good Omens, and in general living up to every nerd stereotype, I never got into the Discworld series. So for my dual review, I asked my husband, a major Discworld fan, to recommend a good entry point and discuss the book with me. Apparently much of the internet agrees with the octospouse that this is a good one to start on, and while I did enjoy it, it may have been a better entry for someone completely ignorant of the series. I read the book thinking it […]

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9/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:71 |

Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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CBR11bingo: Reading the TBR BINGO, Four corners plus center square: Remix, Reading the TBR, Summer Read, Cannonballer Says, Own Voices I think my favorite thing about CBR bingo is that it motivates me to go the library and borrow the books that have been languishing on my TBR list. Good Omens is yet another in the long registry of “Why the hell (ahem) did I wait so long to read this book?” It seems improbable that this novel could be floating around the periphery of my awareness for as long as it has, and had it not been for the […]

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8/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:38 |

“What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?”

Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett

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Times up for death. He’s been handed his notice and he now has a little hourglass counting down the days till he will go. So he does what anyone might do, he quits his job and decides to go traveling. He travels exactly to where miss Flitworth needs a farmhand on her lonely farm. So he becomes a harvester. Meanwhile all the life that was supposed to run out, lingers on in the world causing all sorts of problems; especially for one Windle Poons who just wanted to not just die, but certainly also rest in peace. “Light thinks it […]

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6/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

“The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, ‘What about me?’ and you can just hear the universe replying, ‘Well, what about you?'”

Thief of Time (Discworld, #26) by Terry Pratchett

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There wasn’t enough Death in this, but then again, he’s done all his growing already in other books, so that was probably the smart choice. I still really enjoyed it. The actual main characters of this book are Death’s granddaughter, Susan, who has reached the ultimate peak of her badassdom; a history monk named Lu-Tze; and his apprentice, Lobsang. The history monks are cool. They live in this place where Time doesn’t really exist, and their job is to basically monitor history, and in a sense Time, and protect both when and where they can. When Death learns that once […]

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6/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:60 |


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