Wildsky
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Grace Allen had always been a big fish growing up in a very small pond. Of course, just about any...
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David McK (3540 KP) rated Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch in Books
Jan 6, 2025
Particularly his Discworld series of books.
From which the trainee witch, Tiffany Aching, was a later addition, first appearing in The Wee Free Men when, towards the end of the series (in the alter years of his life) Pratchett started writing a series of Discworld novels aimed more at the younger reader.
Rhianna Pratchett is Terry's daughter, who I know best for having worked on the Tomb Raider series of rebooted games in the 2010s ('Tomb Raider, 'Rise of the Tomb Raider' and 'Shadow of the Tomb Raider') although I am aware she has worked on others.
With Terry passing away in 2015 and with a steam roller (really) crushing his last remaining hard drive as per his will, I thought the Discworld series was done and dusted.
Until this came out, purporting to be a 'in-universe' guide written by Tiffany Aching (and with annotation by Granny Weatherwax, Rob Anybody, and Nanny Ogg amongst others), and (again, in-universe) from after the events of the final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown.
This, I found, to be a light read, not really a story as such as it has no over-arching plot, but a fun diversion for an afternoon or two (or longer if - like me - life keeps getting the road!)
Charles-Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, Premier Grand Mayaniste de France: 2015
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Two hundred years ago, on September 8, 1814, in the northern French city of Bourbourg, a boy was...
Suite Francaise
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By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite...
Unusual in that I don't think I've ever come across history told in such a manner before.
And, I have to say: I think it worked.
This tells the life story of Manfred von Richtohofen, otherwise (and perhaps more famously) known as The Red Baron - a German ace during the infancy of flight, and of warfare in the air (during The Great War, or World War One as it would later become known).
While it does, perhaps, gloss over the more horrific aspects of the war in the air (no parachutes,with the planes being death-traps, and with Richtohofens policy of aiming for the pilot rather than the plane) I have to say that I did learn more from this than I was already aware of - and no, unlike some of my American counterparts, my knowledge of him did NOT come from the Peanuts (right? isn't that the one with Snoopy?) cartoon!
The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story
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Kamila is nine years old when she is taken from the poverty of her childhood village in southern...
Plato: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself
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Written by Dr Roy Jackson, who Senior Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, Plato: A...
Six Months to Live? ... I Don't Think So!: Judi's Journals
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In July 2006 Judi Seall was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given six months to live. Did she...
The Air Raid and the Easter Egg: Two Stories of a Scottish Childhood, 1940
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On the way to school one morning in 1940, six-year-old Maisie hears the air raid siren for the first...
Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory
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Claude Levi-Strauss, the 'father of modern anthropology' and author of the classic Tristes...