Welcome to Litsy!

I enjoyed it overall, aside from all the things I've mentioned previously, that is also probably because I like music, and this was a heavily musical book. Death is handled a lot better in this book. The plot with Imp was pretty interesting, but I did not care for all the wizard shenanigans. I would have preferred it to be only focused on the band plot. I also am not a fan of how Death constantly says how death cannot be changed, and yet he--

Every time i'm starting to enjoy this book I get hit with some fatphobia, misogynistic ideology or racism and its exhausting. It's a product if it's fine but man oof

Best case scenario: I'm glad to have re-read it, and I feel better about it than I did the first time. My hunch that I'm more invested in Susan Sto Helit as a character, than Death, proved true. If I think of this as one of the Discworld Death books, it feels like there's barely enough of him in it, AND I run into the same problem I've regularly had with Death's books, 1/?

Reason..😑🤨

A dangerous trick...😉

😏🤘🏻🎸🔮🪄✨

I went through another Terry Pratchett audiobook. I‘ve read all the novels 10 years ago, so it‘s very interesting to listen to them 10 years later.
The thought of music coming alive is fascinating. And of course there‘s Susan‘s deadpan humor. 🪦🪦🪦

I used to tour and have seen my fair share of backstages. This passage in soul music by Terry Pratchett is hands down the best description of a dressing room I have ever seen.

Oh, shucks. It's a 'meh' for me. Didn't quite gel. Loved one moment between Death and his granddaughter. Blatant lessons around music industry felt a little too real considering all that's come to light in recent years. Death's multi-book attempts to get closer to the humanity he's always near, and never part of just make me sad, and the natural cycle of the universe, i.e. things born, die feels pretty hammered in at this point. 🤷🏼‍♂️

There's something so endlessly darkly charming about the grimy, deadly corners of Ankh-Morpork.
I ♥️ Discworld.

LOL. I love you forever, Sir Terry.

Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord. Everything, all together, streaming out in one huge rush that contained within itself, like reverse fossils, everything that it was going to be. And, zigzagging through the expanding cloud, alive, that first wild live music. This had shape. It had spin. It had rhythm. It had a beat, and you could dance to it. Everything did.” #musical #QuotsyJul21

checked in to a log cabin for a staycation!

Death must deal with grief and his granddaughter Susan is on the job in this Discworld novel that features a lot of funny music references. Imp vows to become the world‘s most famous musician, but the gods were listening and that dream is going to have some (guitar) strings attached. More fun from Pratchett! https://cannonballread.com/2021/01/soul-music-a-novel-of-discworld-elcicco/

#SeptemberSenses @Eggs
#MusicToMyEars

I just realized that I reversed yesterday and today's prompts. Oh well... 🤷‍♀️

Book 38

This is another one that just misses for me. It's fine? Nothing spectacular. I love the constant puns and since I lived for a while in the town where Buddy Holly played his last concert and then died in a plane crash, I appreciated that whole riff at the end.

Really there's nothing I can point to that I specifically don't like. I just feel very "Meh" about it as a whole.

Hey, listen, I‘m not going to complain about a book that gives me Death himself riding a motorcycle while wearing a leather jacket that says “Born to Rune”, but...

it kind of seemed like Discworld 16 was more a collection of fun ideas that Sir Terry had about rock n‘ roll on the Discworld, as opposed to an actual cohesive narrative.

Bud y Holly (get it?) was a nothing protagonist by design, but it was fun to meet Susan, Death‘s granddaughter.

One of my favourite Pratchetts! ❤️🎵 So much fun, unforgettable characters and a story I couldn't get enough of. Sadly, at some point the book ended... 😧

This feels like a take 2 of Moving Pictures and I like it less. Susan and Buddy (and their relationship) never clicked for me. Some great Death stuff in the last 30 pages or so, but a lot of wheel spinning the rest of the time. Wizards liking rock, though? That's fun!
#OokBOokClub

For an anthropomorphic personification, Death sure gets the blues and falls into an existential crisis fairly regularly. He needs to stop pulling these disappearing acts or untimely vacations, but then again he pulls them at just the right time so certain events can transpire... so meant to be and inevitable I guess.

This trope is wearing a bit thin for me, so not a favorite, but I did enjoy the Rock n‘ Roll puns, jokes, & tangential etcs

Too true...

#OokBOokClub
#PratchettPosse

#OokBOokClub
#PratchettPosse

💙

#OokBOokClub
#PrachettPosse

Time for some bad logic!
1) Wizards are like canaries in a coal mine for interdimensional weirdness
2) CMOT Dibbler gets swept up in every last interdimensional trend, therefore
3) Despite all odds, Throat missed his true calling as a wizard
#OokBOokClub

This is going......
......
...
slow
(I don't love Susan)
#OokBOokClub

This might be exactly how our world ended up the surreal mess it currently is! 🤔

#PratchettPosse
#OokBOokClub

Speaking of covers I don't much like...
#OokBOokClub

#OokBOokClub @TricksyTails

Hello friends! Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a spoiler. Find #SoulMusic post & tap "show me" on the spoiler tag to join in the discussion. Join in whenever you can! Today. Tomorrow. Next month! The post will always be up so just tag each other & we'll jump in to discuss with you. Feel free to chat about anything!

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #EpicBuddyRead

Day 6: #hopeful #quotsyfeb20

Judging just by the amount of great puns in this one, it‘s a definite must read! I laughed out loud quite a few times. 😂 #AtoZLitsy (Letter S) #OokBOokClub #EpicBuddyRead

😂😂😂 The footnotes, y‘all! I can‘t even 🤣🤣🤣

As is almost always the case with Litsy hashtags I‘m late to the game. So here is my first #WeeklyForecast post. I‘ve got a couple of books to finish up and a new #bookspin book to start. And, as always, a couple of chunksters in progress.

@Cinfhen

“The #Library didn‘t only contain magical books...which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren‘t also dangerous, just because reading them didn‘t make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader‘s brain.”

“This is a story about memory.” #FirstLineFridays

Oh, how I love Pratchett-isms! 😂

I‘ll be reading a lot of these this year as part of the #OokBOokClub. You can never read too much Pratchett!

Read this as a part of #OokBOOkClub The story is about a musician, Imp Y Celyn(Buddy) and his band, and death‘s granddaughter, Susan who is taking over the responsibilities as her grandfather is taking a break. The story is hailstorms in certain sections and Death is awesome. Enjoyed the machinations if the band‘s manger, Dibbler, and the wizards of the Unseen University. Lot of action, not much description.

Day 22: #denial #quotsyjan20

Day 20: #cheese #quotsyjan20

MEA CULPA! I think I forgot to send you a reminder for this book last month.

#OokBOokClub-ers, our Discworld adventure continues TODAY with #SoulMusic!

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

Happy reading!

@TricksyTails

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #EpicBuddyRead

First audio book of 2020 started 🥰

#Music #SoaringScores @Cinfhen

“It was sad #music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.” #QuotsyJune19

My first Terry Pratchett and definitely not the last! A funny and absurd satire of the music industry and mythologizing of celebrity and a sweet parable on Death and love.