Neanderpundit

that it took me three months to read forty books, but I did also read about twenty other books in the interim.

Truth be told, toward the end I started to slow down, and savor what I was reading, knowing that when it ended that would be it until Sir Terry wrote another.

OTOH, as I’ve said before, it isn’t as if I’ve buried a friend, but rather made a bunch of new ones, who I can go back and revisit over and over again as often as I like.

Just finished “I shall wear midnight”

Having been through them all, there is nothing I can say to disparage Pratchett, and it is very easy to see why people love him.

I can also see how these books fit so many different age groups. There’s a moment early in “I shall wear Midnight” where Tiffany Aching’s father has a conversation with her about the work she does:

Her father looked at her with a kind of proud puzzlement. ‘And you think that’s worth it, do you?’
‘Yes, Dad!’
‘Then I am proud of you, jiggit, you are doing a man’s job!’

Terry Pratchett. I Shall Wear Midnight (Kindle Locations 500-502). HarperCollins.

A teenager would read this book and pass over this line, but it flies off the page to me in glowing letters, for I too have a child of whom I am unspeakably proud.

it’s a little unfair that pratchett can play these emotions so easily and so well, but all we can hope for is that he has several more left in him.

why Scotts thinks that a spokesperson who came in third runner up in a Danny Bonaduce look alike contest with a voice like a Nac MacFeegle will sell their products, but it ain’t working on me.