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Got to catch up with my #GrimReaders reviews before #HauntedShelf ends!

Reaper Man was a solid Discworld installment, full of Pratchett‘s signature satire and wordplay, but I felt the plot was a little all over the place. There was a wizard/Ankh-Morpork storyline and a Death storyline, and the balance between them felt uneven. That said, even a second-tier Pratchett is a worthwhile read. 3⭐️

This installment is a lot better than the first Death book, but I still can't say I enjoyed it much more than the first. There are a lot of interesting discussions about life and death in this book, but I can't say I was very interested in either storyline, despite the strong start. There is a lot going on, and it feels disjointed; again, the transitions between the two storylines aren't very good (yet). Things really fell apart with the trolley-

#coverstories
#barn

That's the best I can do for this prompt, not exactly a barn, but in this book Death is forced into retirement and starts to live and work on a farm, which presumably would have a barn somewhere😂😁🤓

@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

One of my favorite Pratchetts! Even though the German translation uses some words and descriptions I wouldn't use anymore, I still loved each and every page in this book. It just goes straight to the heart. And I think the books about Death help us dealing with our own mortality and might take away some fears. At least it helped me a lot.

#roll100 @PuddleJumper

Glad to be getting back to reading some Pratchett. In this book Death is fired and all havoc ensues.
#roll100

A bit late, but here are my #Roll100 books. It might be that I only get around to the Pratchett one in September, because I want to get myself one of the old editions. The new ones have awful covers.

@PuddleJumper

So, I went through another Discworld novel audiobook. It‘s nice listening to them being read after reading them myself years ago. I especially like the stories of Death because of their wry sense of humour. And the apocalyptic end of Reaper Man made me cry.

Grateful to my library, thanks to reading the Discworld books based on availability, this is the Death book I read last, which I feel is the best one at telling Death's story. Ridiculous wizard hijinx on the side, which brings levity to the poignant tone behind a lot of the truths the principal characters encounter. Moments of action and reflection. Bonus: origin story for The Death of Rats! Beware some early 90s unenlightened passages.

💀vs.💰

Pointy fishes! 🍴Love the imagery.

Here for the evolution witticisms. 😉

Found the next Terry Pratchett book I was planning on reading already on my shelf when I was rearranging some. Good thing I didn't buy another copy!

The Death novels improve as they go. Death gets fired and Discworld experiences an over abundance of life force, which is not a good thing, although it is hilarious.l https://cannonballread.com/2021/01/reaper-man-a-novel-of-discworld-elcicco/

One of my favorite series is Discworld by Terry Pratchett. I‘ve been working my way through them all in order for the last few years, most of them are rereads for me. Each pretty much stands alone, and my past reading order was all over the place, whichever the library had available or whatever I found in a used bookstore or Little Free Library.

I absolutely adore my cloth bound signature series. The tagged is one of my favorites.

Book 37

I changed things up at this point and instead of continuing through chronologically, I swapped over to reading the Death books.

This is my favorite Death story.

"That man is a skelington."

“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the #clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone‘s life is only the core of their actual existence.” #QuotsyDec19

“Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.” #cycle #QuotsyNov19

#quotsyoct19 @TK-421
#Darkness

Snuggles from Minerva while reading make my day 🥰 #CatsofLitsy #CatwithBook #HappyCaturday

#chillingphotochallenge #scarathlon day 10 nothing more #grim than the reaper.

#teamslaughter @Clwojick

On sale in US ebook stores today!

#ooKboOkcluB-ers, looook who I found on YouTube! Mark Reads the Discworld series videos! I have no idea what I was initially on YouTube for or even what I was searching. Whatever that thought was about somehow led me to discovering Mark Oshiro‘s channel. From here on out I‘ll be listening to his readings to keep me on track with the #TerryPratchett #EpicBuddyRead.
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Been neglecting my Pratchett reading lately, so that's this afternoon taken care of. #Tea #LapsangSouchong

Book 60 of the year finished July 26, audio.

I think I already read this one this year but here I am again as I go back through the Discworld books. I really enjoy the scene at the end with the Harvest Dance.

Finished last month‘s #ookbookclub on Friday while offline in the Adirondacks with a friend. Loved it! Death is the best! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

#OokBOokClub @TricksyTails

Hello friends! Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a spoiler. Find Reaper Man 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!

#ReaperMan #Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong

Large sleepy cat and #ookbookclub time. #catsoflitsy

I need to steal this. #ookbookclub

My book matches my pants!!!!! #ookbookclub

#humpdaypost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea
1. poppies! Mine are blooming away despite our extremely non-Californian climate!
2. Haven‘t been reading much still, but our #ookbookclub read this month has been pretty fantastic so far. (tagged)
3. I‘m binging Stranger Things now for the umpteenth time. Can‘t wait for season 3!!
4. sorry but Dr Seuss is the man.

Death is the best! xoxo 🖤
#ookbookclub

I liked this one, death on vacation was interesting to see. I did miss the witches though, although the bumbling wizards were entertaining I missed the ladies. Looking forward to the next one.

#OokBOokClub
#PratchettPosse

And one more #SeriesRead for my ongoing finish up some series challenge with @TheSpineView

“Dead people walking around is unhygienic.”
#ookbookclub

I‘ve said it before, and I‘ll say it again:
Perspective is everything!

And sadly I think only readers really understand that. 😉

#OokBOokClub
#PratchettPosse

This is not the afterlife I was promised! 😂

#OokBOokClub
#PratchettPosse

😂 True enough

But only some....

#OokBOokClub
#PratchettPosse

I‘ve been putting this book off for almost a year after reading and loving Mort. I‘ve just been waiting and waiting for #ookbookclub to get to it. At last, the time has come!

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

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

Happy reading!

@TricksyTails

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

This is a decidedly wobbly rating. After an absolutely fantastic opening there's just... less Bill Door and more Windle Poons than I want (sorry Windle, but you don't have much of a personality). My memory has expanded the Bill Door portion, providing some of the work the book doesn't do, but that ending, when the dust has settled? Full on punch in the sternum. What can the harvest hope for?
#OokBOokClub

I have decided to make an effort on this reread to distinguish the personalities of the various head wizards and so far I have determined that the Senior Wrangler sucks.
#OokBOokClub

Ah, Ridcully has been tweaked into his true form! I'm glad he gets his football team, eventually.
#OokBOokClub