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David McK (3843 KP) rated Hogfather in Books

Dec 27, 2022  
Hogfather
Hogfather
Terry Pratchett | 2006 | Fiction & Poetry
7
9.2 (6 Ratings)
Book Rating
The 20th (of 41) Discworld book, this is Terry Pratchett's seasonal tale, with his character of Death (HO. HO. HO) temporarily having to take over from the Hogfather: Discworld's version of Santa Claus while his grandaughter Susan attempts to find out what has happened to the real thing.

This also a subplot concerning the wizards of Unseen University, and is the novel to come up with such delights as the Sock Monster (remember all those missing socks you have? Exactly.) and the Oh God of hangovers, alongside the Verruca Gnome and the Jolly Fairy - all of which have been created by the 'spare belief' sloshing around when people stop believing in the Hogfather. It's also good to see an, essentially, extended cameo by Nobby Nobbs, while some of the footnotes scattered throughout did have me laughing out loud.
  
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ClareR (6253 KP) rated The Shock of the Light in Books

Jun 16, 2026  
The Shock of the Light
The Shock of the Light
Lori Inglis Hall | 2026 | Fiction & Poetry
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Tessa and The are twins, born in the 1920s, and inseparable until university. Theo goes to Cambridge, Tessa to the Sorbonne. Something terrible happens to Tessa in France, widening the gap between the twins.

When WW2 breaks out, Theo joins the RAF, and a bored, unfulfilled Tessa joins Special Operations and goes to France.

Theo returns, Tessa does not.

Many years later, a PhD student researching the women in Special Operations, gets in contact with Theo about his sister, and together they uncover a shocking secret.

I loved this book. It was so well researched, exciting and emotionally devastating. I was left bereft at the end. The sacrifices people made during this time, even when society made it unacceptable, and women like Tessa did it anyway, were profound.

I couldn’t recommend this more if I tried!
  
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David McK (3843 KP) rated Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind #8) in Books

Jul 19, 2026  
Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind #8)
Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind #8)
Terry Pratchett | 2009 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Maybe not Terry Pratchett at his best, but having said that: it's still better than many other books I've read!

Ostensibly featuring the wizards of Unseen University, this is really more about life below stairs, focusing more on new characters (who work in the kitchen and 'below stairs') than on the wizards themselves. That's not to say the wizards don't have a major role to play - just that they are not the main focus of the novel, which is also built around the game of 'foot-the-ball' changing from the all-out scrap in the streets it starts out as to the more modern, played-in-a-stadium type of game it becomes at the end, in pretty much the same way that the 'real' game of football (or soccer) grew out of the medieval version.