Today’s owl photo features Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett!
And yes, I’m still alive (hurray!), but both my reading and my blog maintenance is suffering from being extremely busy. When I haven’t been working on making my writing deadline later this week, I have been fending off drunk guys at renaissance fairs and blowing stuff up in Dungeons & Dragons.
I wish I could say real life has been keeping me busy, but as you can tell, I have been going all-in with the make-believe.
Back to the book:
This is yet another Discworld reread. Men at Arms is the second book in the City Watch storyline, and while it’s not as great as ‘Guards! Guards!’, it’s still pretty damn great. I love the mismatched duo of Cuddy and Detritus, and Vimes, Colon, Nobby and Carrot are their usual wonderfully dysfunctional selves.
Angua is great as well, but the poor girl is really a bit too sane for her new friends.
Men at Arms
by Terry Pratchett
The City Watch needs MEN! But what it’s got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman… most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).
And they need all the help they can get, because someone in Ankh-Morpork has been getting dangerous ideas – about crowns and legendary swords, and destiny. And the problem with destiny is, of course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger. One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal if not spectacular career path, the next you might be in the frame for the big job, like saving the world…
Hey, there’s nothing wrong with living in the make-believe now and again.
But you can only ignore the real world for so long… At some point, I will need to clean my house before the spiders get me.
Very true. At least we’re approaching Halloween, so the spiders could be considered seasonal decorations?
…You’re right, it’s almost Halloween.
I still have Halloween decorations out from last year.
I think time might be moving a bit too fast for me right now…
Time is moving crazy fast. But hey, Halloween decorations are fun, so I see no problem with leaving them out all year.
It’s not like I went overboard. And compared to the rest of my living room, the skull and the lantern on my window sill doesn’t even register with people.
They fit with the owl, too!
Hej! Glad you’re not dead.
Me too!