February 15, 2019 – February 17, 2019

Amit said to me today “every time I look at you you have your phone in front of you!” I looked back at him and asked “what would you expect me to be doing?” And he said “oh I don’t know, how about existing?”

It was funny to me. These books are kind of flying through my brain because they make life easier. They have a lot of the kind of punny humor that makes me laugh out loud, with a profound thought in each one that is enough to make me grow a little more.

I was honestly sad when I realized that Marget wasn’t going to be in this one, but I guess in Lords and Ladies she had her character climax where she became what she was always meant to be. I still hope she might come back again, because though I laugh at Nanny and enjoy Granny in a kind of weird way, I felt like Marget spoke to me the most.

I guess I just need to find my own crossbow and keyhole.

As for this book, it is all about masks. I REALLY liked the idea that when you put on a mask it hid one version of you but brought out another – though both are true. I find that in myself – the me that I am a one in the morning (which is when I’m writing this) and I’m all alone and have absolutely no obligations to anyone whatsoever, and me during the day, ESPECIALLY at Jacy’s dance class when all I want to do is watch her be cute but end up blabbing to the other moms instead. Both are me – both are different.

But like Granny said, never have a mask that you wouldn’t feel comfortable washing floors in.

February 11, 2019 – February 13, 2019

RINCEWIND!!!!!!!! As soon as they said “wizzard” I got really excited and may have squealed. Yeah, hands down he’s my favorite character.

You know, I do have better things I could be doing with my time, more vegetable like books I could be reading. I’m hosting book club this month, and I have a stack of non-fiction books I’m at various amounts read through.

But these books make me happy. Which sometimes are the very best types of books there are.

July 28, 2021 – August 1, 2021

I was worried that this book was racist toward Australian natives (I’m not going to try and spell it) but then weirdly the ending made it ok? Question mark? I don’t know if that is me being white or if it is actually fine. I also was wondering about how someone in China would react to this book. I don’t know much about the rise of communism but there is a lot of stuff about how these things are messed up. But who really cares- my brain is still broken and I thought Ricewind would make it better – which he did. I just bought Color of Magic and Light Fantastic because they make me happy – and right now I need more happiness. 😊❤️ 

February 6, 2019 – February 11, 2019

I love Death. He is in every book that I’ve noticed, and the ones that focus on him are some of my favorite. I actually went back and changed Mort to five stars because I realized while reading this one how much I actually did love that one. As for this specific book I laughed out loud at the puns, and thought Susan was cool. I have noticed that he does kind of have a theme of different cultural phenomena as outside entities possessing people and trying to cause the end of the world. 😋

February 13, 2019 – February 15, 2019

That had a lot more social commentary than I’m used to, which worked really well with these characters. A new and kind of terrifying insight into guns and just weapons in general. And the power that leaders should and shouldn’t have – whether or not they are good people or not.

I’m not going to pretend to guess what he wanted to say, but there seemed to be a parallel at the end between the gonne and having a king- that anything that gives someone easy, accessible power over others leads to “bad stuff”.

Oh, and Carrot got a girlfriend! 😜

January 26, 2019 – January 29, 2019

I love these witches. A lot. Especially Marget with a crossbow.

January 18, 2019 – January 22, 2019

I honestly wasn’t crazy about reading this book, but it was the next one and I have trouble just saying no to a book whether I think it will be good for my brain or not. Not in the intellectual way, that would be my mind. I mean my brain- as in the risk of it turning into oatmeal.

You see, my atheist high school boy friend loved this book – because of the way that it supposedly made fun of religion and pointed out how stupid/evil it was.

The thing is, yeah, it does make fun of religion, and philosophy, and just belief in general – but what it doesn’t make fun of is someone trying to figure things out and being a good person just for the sake of being a good person. This book doesn’t actually say anything is wrong with believing, and that it can be a good thing as long as what you believe in isn’t your own perfection.

Though as a side note, I am grateful that my God isn’t like any of these gods, like, at all. Maybe that’s another reason I liked this book – this is a fantasy series and the gods and religions in this book are just that- fantasy with almost no grounding in reality.

In the end, I liked this book and yeah, I would recommend it.

If there wasn’t a God I would be an atheist, but there is, so I’m not.

June 4, 2019 – June 11, 2019

December 6, 2018 – December 15, 2018

I love these witch’s.