Wednesday Reading Meme - August 16 2023
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kitewithfishWhat I’ve Read:
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes – Rob Wilkins - Hugos 2023 Best Related Work Nominee – This was lovely and touching and deeply sweet and sad. Wilkins was Pratchett’s personal assistant and business manager for 20 years, which often involved literally taking dictation for Pratchett as he was writing out novels. It shows – there’s a deep affection and clear eyed understanding of Pratchett that makes the grief of the last sections of the book hit all the harder. It’s a great review of Pratchett’s life from childhood – and since Pratchett was working on the autobiography before he got too sick to work, he was able to contribute a lot of his childhood memories. It feels like a book that starts very very Pratchett and ends with Pratchett slowly leaving the text, as he slowly left his life. I cried at the end, and coming on Season 2 of Good Omens, it made me want to get immediately back into Pratchett’s writing, so I picked up Thud for a re-read.
(I honestly don’t know how many Pratchett books I have read – I have definitely read Guards, Guards!, Witches Abroad, Lord and Ladies, Maskerade, Feet of Clay, The Wee Free Men, Monstrous Regiment, Small Gods, Night Watch, Going Postal, Making Money, Snuff, and at least one of the Rincewind books – so I have definitely got a sample going. I have been cautious about reading all the rest – I am trying to keep a few new ones back for a rainy day.)
I also re-read This Is How You Lose the Time War and I enjoyed it as much the second time.
What I’m Reading:
Thud! By Terry Pratchett
Kristeva Powers of Horror – 51%
Dracula – Keeping up with Dracula Daily
The Count of Monte Cristo – 46% - Static
The King in Yellow 25% -static
What I’ll Read Next:
Fun home : a family tragicomic
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
The Spare Man
Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes – Rob Wilkins - Hugos 2023 Best Related Work Nominee – This was lovely and touching and deeply sweet and sad. Wilkins was Pratchett’s personal assistant and business manager for 20 years, which often involved literally taking dictation for Pratchett as he was writing out novels. It shows – there’s a deep affection and clear eyed understanding of Pratchett that makes the grief of the last sections of the book hit all the harder. It’s a great review of Pratchett’s life from childhood – and since Pratchett was working on the autobiography before he got too sick to work, he was able to contribute a lot of his childhood memories. It feels like a book that starts very very Pratchett and ends with Pratchett slowly leaving the text, as he slowly left his life. I cried at the end, and coming on Season 2 of Good Omens, it made me want to get immediately back into Pratchett’s writing, so I picked up Thud for a re-read.
(I honestly don’t know how many Pratchett books I have read – I have definitely read Guards, Guards!, Witches Abroad, Lord and Ladies, Maskerade, Feet of Clay, The Wee Free Men, Monstrous Regiment, Small Gods, Night Watch, Going Postal, Making Money, Snuff, and at least one of the Rincewind books – so I have definitely got a sample going. I have been cautious about reading all the rest – I am trying to keep a few new ones back for a rainy day.)
I also re-read This Is How You Lose the Time War and I enjoyed it as much the second time.
What I’m Reading:
Thud! By Terry Pratchett
Kristeva Powers of Horror – 51%
Dracula – Keeping up with Dracula Daily
The Count of Monte Cristo – 46% - Static
The King in Yellow 25% -static
What I’ll Read Next:
Fun home : a family tragicomic
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
The Spare Man
Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir
Owned and need to read: California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Tom Stoppard, Invention of love, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
