Reading blackout before the end of the first bingo month and two more completed bingos in week 4 for a total of three bingos so far -- if anybody had told me this going in, I'd have questioned their sanity. Not least because I had a major project to complete this month, which I knew was going to in...
Polly Perks cuts her hair and leaves home to join her nation’s army to find her brother and bring him home; however her act of defiance against her country’s social norms turns out to have consequences geopolitically. Monstrous Regiment, the 31st book of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and the t...
Monstrous Regiment is the third book in the Industrial Revolution subseries of Discworld. The book starts off with our main character, Polly, transforming herself into Oliver. Yep, she’s chopping off her hair and dressing up like a boy so she can go and enlist in the military. She lives in a sm...
I'm not caught up on the Discworld novels. Part of the reason is that there are just so many books in the series, and I'm not quite willing to commit that many books when there are so many other books I want to read, too. So, when I hear about some books in the series that can be read without havi...
I don't know, something about an amazing writer who happens to be a man can write about the stupidity of the way the world reacts to women doing anything just makes me love them that tiny bit more, y'know?
~~moved from GR~~ "GOD hath revealed unto some in this our age, that it is more than a monster in nature that a Woman shall reign and have empire above Man. ...To promote a Woman to beare rule, or empire above any realme, nation or citie, is repugnant to nature, contumelie to God, and a thing moste ...
Another fantastic installment in the Discworld universe :)A band of likely lads goes out to join the war, for Duchess and country. But it turns out that, however likely they may be, there's less of the "lad" about them. But, being a lady in trousers is an Abomonation unto the local god of custom. So...
Pratchett addresses two questions here: (1) “Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?” and (2) Does - and, more importantly, should - a well-placed pair of socks (for 'certain' sort of padding) make a difference? “The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be pref...
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