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The Bookish Owl – Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

Monstrous Regiment Terry Pratchett Owl

I have been neglecting my reading (and owl photos) this month, but I’m finally back and reading Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett.

I don’t have to rave about my love for Discworld, right? You’re all caught up on that.

(If you’re not, just go to the search bar at bottom of this site and do a search for ‘Terry Pratchett’. That should bring up about a dozen posts worth of raving…)

‘Monstrous Regiment’ is part of the Industrial Revolution subseries, like ‘The Truth’, meaning it will probably be as batshit insane as every other Discworld book. It’s just going to be more modern about it.

Monstrous Regiment
by Terry Pratchett

It began as a sudden strange fancy…

Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time…

And now she’s enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother.

But there’s a war on. There’s always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them.

All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well… They have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of… the Monstrous Regiment.

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The Bookish Owl – The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett owl

I’m reading The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett: Which means, you guessed it, we’re back on the Discworld!

This is the first book in the Tiffany Aching series, so I’m looking forward to getting to know a new Discworld protagonist (and hopefully meet some old friends).

I have been reading a ridiculous amount of Discworld books in the last few years (honestly, I don’t think I read a single book not written by Terry Pratchett in all of 2018), yet I’m still far from done and Pratchett’s characters haven’t lost their appeal yet. If anything, I believe I’m actually more interested in their adventures now than I was in the beginning, when I mostly cared about the jokes.

The Wee Free Men
by Terry Pratchett

A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality… Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle – aka the Wee Free Men – a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men. Together they must face headless horsemen, ferocious grimhounds, terrifying dreams come true, and ultimately the sinister Queen of the Elves herself…

It does pain me that the Tiffany Aching-books haven’t been released in the same gorgeous Collector’s Edition as my other Discworld-books, though… Not only does it ruin the aesthetics of my Discworld bookshelves, but Artemis also has a way harder time knocking the heavy-bound hardbacks over when I take these photos.

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The Bookish Owl – Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

Night Watch Terry Pratchett Owl

Phew, been a few weeks since I did one of these, huh? It’s been a little too busy for me to get some proper reading done. But now things are calming down, so it’s time for me to get back to tackling my to-read pile!

Right now I’m reading Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, and despite it being a huge-ass mofo compared to the previous Discworld books, I doubt it will take long for me to finish it. I think I have stated this in previous installments of my Bookish Owl posts, but I love Pratchett’s City Watch books! I’m almost looking forward to finishing the whole Discworld-series (almost), just so I can go back and reread the ones with the Watch.

…and after that, the ones with Death. And then the ones with the Witches. And then most of the Rincewind ones.

Let’s face it. I’ll probably never be done with Discworld.

And, of course, here’s your owl photo!
I keep thinking Artemis will run out of weird poses for these, but he keeps surprising me. I would try to get him to perch on the book, if it didn’t mean I would have to switch to portrait framing for the photo (and if it didn’t mean he would shit down the back of my books…)

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The Bookish Owl – The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Terry Pratchett Owl

Yep. I’m reading a book about a talking cat.

Nothing wrong with that, per se, but I went straight from a rather gritty Witcher novel to this, so I’m getting a bit of literary whiplash.

The book in question is The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett, the first Discworld book to be aimed at children. But, of course, it wouldn’t be all that unusual to see talking cats and tap-dancing rats in the novels he wrote for adults, either…

But I must say I didn’t expect this amount of cannibalism and people getting stabbed in the eye with frozen herrings in a children’s book.

Honestly, I don’t think I ever expect anyone to be stabbed in the eye with a frozen herring when reading a book, but that’s besides the point.

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The Bookish Owl – The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett

The Last Hero Terry Pratchett owl

This one barely qualifies as a novel, considering it’s about 170 pages and every page is illustrated, but since it’s about Cohen the Barbarian and his quest to blow up the gods of the Discworld, I’m sure I’m in for a ride with The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett (and illustrated by Paul Kidby).

If you haven’t read the Discworld books, you won’t know about how Cohen is the hero we all need. I think it’s a travesty that he’s not featured in more of the books, so I’m glad that he gets to be the star of this one…

…even if he’s trying to blow up the gods and end the world out of spite.

We’ve all been there.

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