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Even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment.

I am a very nagging person, most noticeably a fan of terry pratchett. Currently doing some catching-up with Irish literature due to hoizer book club.

Oh yes, books will be recorded in the language I read them in.

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Snuff (2011) 4 stars

Snuff is the 39th novel in the Discworld series, written by Terry Pratchett. It was …

Vimes considered this input and said, ‘Well, you might be right.’ Then, out of nowhere, possibly some deep hole, a thought struck him, just as it had many times before, sometimes in nightmares. ‘I wonder if any author has thought about the relationship between the hunter and the hunted, the policeman and the mysterious killer, the lawman who must think like a criminal sometimes in order to do his job, and may be unpleasantly surprised at how good he is at such thinking, perhaps. Just an idea, you understand,’ he said lamely, and wondered where the hell it had come from.

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I don't even know what I'm looking at nowadays.

Wintersmith (2006) 4 stars

Wintersmith is a comic fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, set in the Discworld …

Another one played on the 'follow the stories' assumption (why am I calling it assumptions now) (because it's like the books are based on pterry making an assumption of 'what if the world follows this rule?' then playing it out :)) so I guess it's most similar to Witches Abroad.

The elemental trying to be human thing is rather Thief of Time, in a way it ended in a similar tone, with quite some sympathy and heartbreaks at the end of the short life, which also makes the life fuller :) I felt a .. like physical stab to me heart at the must you betray me with a kiss, and the ring, and the ring-giving at the summer dance. help. uh.

Other lovely spots are a bit trivial. I do like the underworld tour, with imaginery sword and don't blink and you are your memory stuff, very DW. Then …

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Red Dragon (1982, Bantam Books) 5 stars

If you never thought a book could make you quake with fear, prepare yourself for …

Content warning red dragon film/book/show (s3) plots

Wintersmith (2006) 4 stars

Wintersmith is a comic fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, set in the Discworld …

“But he can kill people!”

“He’s Winter. It’s what he does. But I reckon he’s in a bit of a tizzy because he’s never been in love with a human before.”

“In love?”

“Well, he probably thinks he is.”

Once again the eyes watched her carefully.

“He’s an elemental, and they’re simple, really,” Nanny Ogg went on. “But he’s trying to be human. And that’s complicated. We’re packed with stuff he doesn’t understand—can’t understand, really. Anger, for example. A blizzard is never angry. The storm don’t hate the people who die in it. The wind is never cruel. But the more he thinks about you, the more he’s having to deal with feelings like this, and there’s none can teach him. He’s not very clever. He’s never had to be. And the interesting thing is that you are changin’ too—”

[.....]

“You think I’m turning into a…a goddess?” said Tiffany.

[....]

It was worth it to see their faces. The only mouth not in an O was the one belonging to Granny Weatherwax, which was smirking. She looked like someone whose dog has just done a rather good trick.

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( I cannot say what I am thinking, seeing this )

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@pikapika hhh 我是一个离开括弧讲不了中文的mastodon用户嘛 汤这位 bonearenaofmyskull.tumblr.com/hannibalmetaindexs1 这个链接是我最喜爱汤主的S1 meta的整理,这位汤主是我见过arguments写得最好的一位,very concise and very logical and properly objective even tho she absolutely stans for Will, 且熟读原著,专业是literature,职业是literature teacher,也许这就是为什么人家预测剧情神准(((( 她的S1 meta很多是在S2 S3播出之前写的,有一些从三季之后的角度回顾会有一些不准,但是... 还是比其他某些观众的小论文好多了。 我没有看过vampire diaries, sorry XD

@pikapika hhhhh 没事,其实我并不嗑cp(?)也不会自己写什么(你)(但是也不拒绝fanfics(读过一些S4 fanfics S2和S3很棒,每一季都在刷新这个关系,爽极了(it's beautiful) I've spent the past six months going through the episodes (three times (??)) and shedload of analysis essays and extras and commentaries and interviews, I'm still halfway through the commentaries ( 如有需要的话 我能提供一些优秀的 tumblr 分析小论文(什么)和搞笑blog(你

Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul (Paperback, 1991, Pocket) 5 stars

Douglas Adams for those who may not be familiar with either him or his books …

I finished listening a while ago, but then I immediately lost my phone, so i didn't do the planned listening-for-a-second-time-and-picking-up-more-details, which I wanted to do before I said anything about it.

Well it is nicely suspenseful story, fun to listen to, weirdly similar in the myth basis so I got really confused when I did this and American Gods simultaneously, because they are both using Norse mythology for the main plotline/characters .... and it is rather similar to the taste of Hitchhiker's.

The Hot Potato song is still stuck in my head.

Um, I can't find the book and I am too lazy to create an item, so I write it under this because I did them for the same reason: fannibalism. Book: Imposter, LJ Ross, read by Hugh Dancy I.... after I listened I totally get why they got Dancy to read the audiobook .... It's a psychological profiler who has a day job as a psychologist and got dragged into an investigation because police needed it and did it for free, who is traumatised by previous patient and people he couldn't save, and determined to not lose another victim because he couldn't profile well .... Well .... basically, it's will graham having hanni's day job (?) It's not bad, it's a decent detective story.

Red Dragon (1982, Bantam Books) 5 stars

If you never thought a book could make you quake with fear, prepare yourself for …

Well! Unexpectedly... it is true that Hannibal NBC is authentic to the theme of this. And the feeling of the writing. The ending paragraph even has got the Pterry feeling of choosing to be what you are, and we are all capable of good and evil, and good and evil are man-made concepts. Well! I mean ... it does stem from the William Blake poems and Blake's always been on the symmetry of human nature, not only in the quoted songs of innocence and experience, but also in marriage of heaven and hell. It all goes full circle....

North and South (Paperback, 2007, BiblioBazaar) No rating

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted …

This is more interesting than I thought. It's like Pride and Prejudice but the conflicts are between classes, and the transformation from the agriculture-landowner way of making a living, to the industry-manufacturer way. It has pretty good way of looking at strike, and seeking understanding between people with different perspectives. Margaret is able to change from her how she's brought up, but the old life is always chasing her and trying to imprison her again, and that leaves her quite lonely. Same for Thornton. People that are on the margin of their designated groups, who are capable and willing to cross the boundary, what's not to love about them.

Unseen Academicals (Hardcover, 2009, Doubleday) 4 stars

The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things_wisdom, magic, and their love …

Crab bucket, thought Glenda as they hurried towards the Night Kitchen. That’s how it works. People from the Sisters disapproving when a girl takes the trolley bus. That’s crab bucket. Practically everything my mum ever told me, that’s crab bucket. Practically everything I’ve ever told Juliet, that’s crab bucket, too. Maybe it’s just another word for the Shove. It’s so nice and warm on the inside that you forget that there’s an outside. The worst of it is, the crab that mostly keeps you down is you…The realization had her mind on fire.

A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say ‘Do not do this’ in the hope that it’ll work, but if it doesn’t, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all. Look at Juliet talking to all those nobby ladies. She didn’t know that she shouldn’t talk to them like that. And it worked! Nobody hit her on the head with a hammer.

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And this. To leave behind the participation, the belonging, the communion that is not all you.

This is probably why I feel connection to the Nutt plotline, because what orcs were, he isn't. He isn't, because Margolotta made him, and sent him away from that environment. He grew to be different, he became a proof. He proved that not becoming the status quo was possible, one could choose. And he could even stand up to his very own maker in addition to the ...bio-engineered makeup. His own maker was the voice in his head, the thing that kept him down ... it was useful in the beginning (was it tho), but it was not helpful after a while. He learned to be critical about that. He escaped his crab bucket too.