Fifth Elephant | 
pickI forgot how much this book rocks. Vimes is such an intriguing, hilarious character, and Lady Sybil...ADORE her. Everything about this book just shocks the hell out of me. Considering when it was published, Pratchett's stance on transgender rights is fucking fabulous. I don't think I caught that the first time I read this. People underestimate the ability of SFF to make a goddamn statement, even if it is “only“ genre fiction. ⬇
pickAs with Feet of Clay, I feel like I got more out of the story on the second read. Would have loved to have gone more in depth with the gender discussions, but I recognize that it was a side plot. Main theme, which seems to be a pattern in those works centred around Vimes, is the ethical use of power, and the use versus danger of tradition, as well as a cracking good mystery of course. Still loving my Discworld City Watch reread. 🥰
⚠️Animal death
Pratchett: King of snarky commentary, and footnotes. 👑
Came back from a long weekend with a cold so I am drinking tea, sleeping, coughing and reading
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My 2ond Pratchett only cemented the fact that I am totally on board with Pratchett‘s humor and sensibilities. In 2021, I became a Discworld convert. This title is no. 24 in the series and no. 5 in the City Watch sub-series. While I would have benefited from reading it in sequence, I still heartily enjoyed this story of Sam Vines, City Watch Commander being sent to the Uberwald for the new Dwarf King coronation. Hijinks ensue! 😂
@ReadingEnvy I even ran into this world in wild recently when reading Terry Pratchett! 😅
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pick#doublespin down! This might be my favourite Discworld book yet! Loving Uberwald, and Captain Carrot has got to be one of my favourite characters in the whole series!
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And look at this little container dor my glitter cutex and and cutest little bottle of hand sanitiser!
Love all of it so much!! 😍💃😍💃😍
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Just look at those tea bags (peaches & ginger / rooibos chai / cinnamon / african summer / lemongras & ginger) can not wait to taste it!!
The Hogwarts keychain has found it‘s keys and the treats is going to be delicious! 😱😱😱
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So beautifully packaged with so many goodies inside!
I am in love! 😍😍😍
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My “secret santa bookclub parcel” have arrived!!! 💃💃💃
I promised myself I will leave it until Christmas...well that did not last...😂😂😂
pickThis book should have been -way- longer because I wanted more of basically everything (except for Gaspode, I guess). I especially wish that more had been gone into about the werewolves and what they wanted.
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It's possible this is somehow the most naked book I have ever read, and I read romance on the reg.
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Vimes talking to Death = The Good Shit
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Carrot... you're dating a werewolf... and you don't know that wolves can communicate? Book, do you expect me to believe that Carrot wouldn't learn everything about both werewolves and regular wolves???
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I do have to say, the least comfortable I have been with the Watch being, y'know, cops is the traffic stiff at the beginning of this book. I don't need this... extortion, even as jokes.
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Wait, Igors appear to only have a single gender too...
(Am I going to Lose My Mind with Monstrous Regiment???)
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The thing about the dwarf gender stuff that has popped up again at the beginning of this book is that it is close to -something- if only Prachett had conceived of gender beyond the binary. Dwarves as mono gendered? Interesting! But they all default to male and female is the only other choice? Bummer!
(Also, I think Nobby is just supposed to be a hacky "man in a dress" joke, but he's near this other gender fuckery, so I'm not sure...)
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pickNot nearly enough elephants for a book with this title, but otherwise a great read. I always enjoy the Watch books and for this one Vimes is sent on a diplomatic mission far from home. As much as I enjoy him at his most vulnerable and uncomfortable while preforming his Ducal duties, Lady Sybil shined in this one, as well as Cheery Detritus, Carrot, Angua, Gaspode, and Gavin.
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pickVimes is the main character in this Discworld novel, and he‘s off to Uberwald to act as ambassador at the coronation of the new Dwarf King. But of course it can‘t be as easy as that, as he deals with a robbery, and the native vampires and werewolves. 💛💙
This is one of my favorites in the series, the story flows seamlessly and I laughed a lot (and cried a little.)
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pickAfter reading a lot of bits of books for the last few months I finally finished one... I like this series and this author. Often silly but entirely fun.
Loving this one so far. Not so much loving how long this car service is taking...
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VIMES, YOU PRECIOUS BEAN
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"Sometimes," Vetinari said, testily, "it really does seem to me that the culture of cynicism in the Watch is ... is ..."
"Insufficient?" said Vimes.
???
Oh Vimes ❤️
“He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.”
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There‘s nothing like Sir Terry to calm a migraine-troubled head ❤️
pickThis wasn‘t quite on the same level as the previous books in this arc, for me - it‘s certainly still funny and original and had all the expected kookiness, but just didn‘t have the same payoff. I admit to feeling a little confused at times about the central plot, and found that some parts just felt like filler. But still definitely an enjoyable read, and I liked visiting another part of this world. And I always love seeing Detritus again! 3/5 ⭐️
Well, he thought, so *this* is diplomacy. It‘s lying, only for a better class of people.
[If there‘s a way to show italics, please let me know, the asterisks always look annoying to me. I tried copy-pasting but it didn‘t work.]
...a gnome six inches tall but a mile high in pent-up aggression.
[Again, it me.]
Vimes had a go, but he knew that to really speak Dwarfish you needed a lifetime‘s study and, if at all possible, a serious throat infection.
[LOL me trying to speak Yiddish.]
It‘s been too long since I went back to Discworld. Time to rectify that! #nowreading
Day 29: Magic! 🐰🐰🐰🐰 I haven‘t read any Pratchett yet but all his books have magic right? I loved The Hitchhiker‘s Guide so an thinking his humor will jive with my own 😆
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pickVines is despatched to Uberwald to prevent a possible dwarvish civil war caused by the apparent theft of the historic Scone of Stone. More plot driven than most Discworld novels, and therefore with perhaps fewer jokes per page than some, but still great. I loved the self-help group for reformed vampires (Suck, don't impale, small steps) among many other delights.
November reads
8 books read
4 male authors, 4 female
2 Fantasy, 3 crime, 1 comic novel, 1 historical novel, 1 history
5 new (to me) authors
Hard to pick a standout but Stay Close by Harlan Coben probably just shades it
But they were what every copper desires in a citizen. They were no trouble. They mostly had jobs,, they paid their taxes rather more readily than humans did, although to be honest there were small piles of mouse droppings that yielded more money than most Ankh-Morpork citizens, and generally any problems they had they sorted out among themselves. If such people ever come to the attention of the police, it's usually only as a chalk outline.
Lol, I have never had to grout the bathroom before leaving on a trip, but I know I've done some very important random things that just couldn't wait 😂 Terry Pratchett's writing cracks me up!
Just adding a few more to the Pratchett shelf!
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Anywhoo, fantastic book, highly recommended. #aam #terrypratchett @soubhiville 1w