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My husband had been telling me to read Terry Pratchett since way before he was my husband. He told me there was a book called Good Omens that he thought I’d like so I waited, like, 10 years and then I read it and he was right. Then I read The Colour of Magic and was like hmm, okay, interesting, but I wasn’t blown away and I BARELY remember reading it so I went on with my life and read a ton of Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood and a lot of other things, but no more Pratchett, no more Discworld.

Maybe I just wasn’t in need of it yet but when I was going through a hard time I decided to try again and I think I read Reaper Man and fell in love with DEATH, and then because I mostly read whatever is available at the time on Libby I grabbed one of the Witches books and decided that I wanted to BE Granny Weatherwax when I grew up (ha) but in fact was 80% Nanny Ogg and 20% Magrat (no complaints, and I’m Granny when the situation calls for it) and so I read every single Witches book. I’ve been hooked ever since.

I didn’t think I’d love any of the characters more than the witches and thought hey, people love the City Watch books but different strokes for different folks, I’m sure they’re still lovely, I just won’t love them as much and I was SO wrong because Pseudopolis Yard and Ankh Morpork feel like home and I’d kill for Vimes and Carrot and Angua and Vetinari and Colon and Nobbs and all the rest. I love them. I’m reading that series in order and just finished Jingo (my favorite so far) and I’m waiting for The Fifth Elephant to be available. I cannot wait.

Anyway, long, rambling post to say how much I love Discworld and all the people on it and my family is probably getting REALLY sick of hearing about it but phooey on them. And now I’m off to spend some time with Tiffany Aching and the Nac Mac Feegle. I love them too.