According to Sam Vimes:

"Only two types of people laugh at the law: those who break them and those who make them".

Since 2016, it seems to me those two types of people have been working together to push out one continual laughfest.

Personally, I'm sick of it.

This year, I'm re-reading the Discworld City Watch books. I'm now at the sixth book (Discworld #29), "Night Watch".

I bought the hardcover version when it came out in 2002 I remember it as sad and as capturing the real reasons why we resist authority, even when we know we'll lose. For me, it marks when the Discworld books really became serious about politics and power. It's an odd book. Vimes travels back in time to an uprising in an earlier Ankh-Morpork. The events seem to be broadly similar to the doomed Paris Commune of 1871.

I have the original hardcover in front of me now. I'm re-reading it for the first time in seventeen years.

I hesitated to re-read this as it's one of my favourite Terry Pratchett books (the only rival being "I Shall Wear Midnight", the book where Tiffany Aching grows up) but I think that, with all the crap going on in the UK at the moment, it's time to read this again and share in the anger and courage that Terry Pratchett gifts Vimes with.

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I´m one of those readers that needs a plot and I tend to struggle with character studies. But leave it to Sarah Waters to write a character study that has completely won me over. She slowly pulled me in into the lives of these four characters and I enjoyed every second of it.

I have to say, though, that some things have been left unexplained due to the structure of the novel.

The story starts in the year 1947 and then Waters moves backwards in time, first to the year 1944 and then to the year 1941. Having learned the stories of these characters and what they have experienced during WWII, I would have loved to go back to the year 1947 to spend some more time with them and the new knowledge about them.

Read for the Epiphany tasks, a book that has the word "night" in its title.

I´m still not sure what this book is actually about. There isn´t much of a plot. But I actually don´t mind because of the great characters in this novel.

I have to admit, though, that Helen´s jealousy makes me mad. I wonder what made her become such a jealous lunatic.

My second to last Sarah Waters novel. I´m reading this for door 24 (Epiphany - January 6th), a book with the word "twelve" or "night" in the title.