Welcome to Litsy!

It turns out my spine is even worse off than I thought (I have severe stenosis in my neck that has caused spinal cord compression), and I'm feeling depressed and defeated, so I'm keeping June's #BookSpin list to mostly shorter, easy reads, with the exception of a couple that I've been really wanting to get to sooner rather than later.

#WhereAreYouMonday

I'm in the fascinating, fragrant city of Ankh-Morpork. Unfortunately, so is a dragon.

@Cupcake12

Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually *say* anything, I'm not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and almost be heard...

But no man said anything. The cowards, each man thought.

Ayyy I made it! 😅 The last -ology I needed to read through would‘ve been decalogy. I planned on The Sandman GNs way back when I started this project, but sadly I‘ll be skipping those. So instead I‘m continuing on with the mega series of Discworld. I‘ll be marathoning my way through the Industrial Revolution collection that I‘ve gotten behind on with the #OokBookClub. Fingers crossed I‘ll get caught up to The City Watch novels.

Not my first Discworld book, but it is my first book of the Watch. Very enjoyable to listen to! #audiobooks #discworld

Honouring the People's Revolution on the #Discworld, I stole the image from Discworld.com's IG. 🦧

#OokBOokClub #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse

Another belated #OokBOokClub review…

I was excited to find Pratchett using chapters in the first two Moist Von Lipwig books, and sad he was back to no chapters here. My brain likes chapters. And while I do feel the earlier books are stronger, I did really enjoy this—chapters or no. It‘s dawning on me that I‘m a sucker for a train-ride setting!

Moist continues to discover new sides to himself here, and his interplay with Adora was fantastic, ⤵️

I need to start Guards! Guards! in the next few days, so I‘d better circle back and review a couple previous #OokBOokClub reads!

With the Post Office well in hand, Moist Von Lipwig now takes charge of the Royal Mint and the bank—naturally. New over-the-top characters are introduced here, but Pratchett manages to handle them deftly enough that it (mostly) felt like just the right amount of outlandish and ridiculous. I really enjoyed this ⤵️

And so the reread of the Discworld Witches books begins! Had an absolutely lovely time with this one. I can distantly remember a certain vague disappointment upon first reading this book a few years ago, but I think I was expecting it to do too many things or maybe just different things.
There's a smidgen of commentary on gender roles/sexism, there's a pleasant left-turn on the classic chosen one motif. 1/?

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.