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The Blacktongue Thief | Christopher Buehlman

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Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 🙌🏻 2w

Eggs Beautiful 🧡🥰👏🏻 2w

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humouress

A Market of Dreams and Destiny | Trip Galey

9781803363691
Intriguing concept, though I‘m just starting this. I like the way everyone shouts their wares in rhyme in the Untermarkt and the bells sing their messages to rhyme with their names (as in ‘Oranges and Lemons‘ say the bells of St Clemens)

Author‘s name is Trip Galey (gaily?) but copyright is Powder Thomson

Lyrical descriptions

I like Aurelia.

It started picking up for me around ch 9 (of 52) despite some delightful ideas earlier on

humouress Ch 1:
Did you hear? Did you hear? rang the Bell of Auld St. Cyr. The Merchant Shade did disappear!
Pish and tosh! Pish and tosh! rang the bell near Merchant Kosh. He‘s simply gone to do his wash!

the Untermarkt stepped in to tempt him.
‘Prose spelt in poseys! In pansies and roseys!‘
A single voice leapt out at him, clear above the clamour. Right on cue. The Market couldn‘t resist an unspoken desire. (edited) 3w

humouress Ch 2:
‘Why does it have to be so complicated? What‘s wrong with plain money for stuff, no tricks?‘
‘It‘s boring,‘ Deri answered without thinking, ‘and what would most of us do with a bunch of dead metal anyway? It‘s easy enough to get, in Faery. The last blush of innocence, though, that‘s truly rare. That has lasting value.‘ Deri bit his tongue before it spilled any more freebies.
‘I‘d not thought of it that way,‘ Owain said.
⬇️ (edited) 3w

humouress ⬆️
‘Most mortals don‘t need to.‘ Deri glanced around at the crowded market.

Ch 3:

the incense smelled of his favourite meal – fish and chips –

Ch 9:

Silvestra ignored both the verbal barb and the needlessly complex idiom. Aurelia waxed sesquipedalian when stressed.

Ch 34:

Aurelia took a deep breath of the clear country air and nearly choked on the smell of manure 2w

humouress 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 ☀ / 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 ✨ (edited) 2w

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Doppoetry

Snuff | Terry Pratchett

so-so

This also started off really fresh and different, but fell apart towards the middle, and the last 2 hours really dragged. There was still very good commentary about racism, exploitation, drug abuse, slavery, and prejudice. The “dehumanization“ of the goblins really rustled my feathers. The humor in this really struggled and was very low-brow, relying too heavily on 💩, especially because Pratchett is known for his humor. It's a very weak ending.--

Doppoetry -to the sub-series as a whole.

I was pleasantly surprised by how different Willikins was by the end of the sub-series; he became one of my favorite characters in fact. Seeing him develop from just a butler to a deadly and cunning individual, and seeing Vimes as an equal and not as just an employer, is delightful. 1mo

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Doppoetry

Snuff | Terry Pratchett

Somehow the casual misogyny keeps popping up

julesG But keep in mind, just because the character is misogynistic doesn't necessarily mean that the author is too. 1mo

Doppoetry @julesG it also doesnt mean that he isn't. 1mo

julesG You're right. But I just had a very lengthy discussion with someone about whether the author of a book was racist, because one of the characters was racist. And yes, it doesn't mean that the author isn't, but it's also no proof that the author is. 1mo

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Doppoetry @julesG It's okay to have your own opinions, I didn't imply TP was a misogynist at all, but we also can't keep excusing problematic things because it's “in character“ or putting our own opinions into dead authors' mouths. 1mo

julesG I'm absolutely fine with calling it out. Guess that discussion about racism ruffled my feathers. 1mo

Doppoetry @julesG There are clear themes of prejudice and racism in these books. I wouldn't say that TP seemed like he was racist, as much as he was criticizing the casual racism that citizens might have, consciously or otherwise.

1mo

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Doppoetry

Snuff | Terry Pratchett

There was this earlier scene where Lady Sybil and Vimes were over to this noblewoman's house, and Vimes started telling these young women that they should just get jobs and not rely on finding a rich man to marry. While I get the sentiment, I also fundamentally dislike it when ignorant men tell young women what to do.

Normally, Sybil corrects him when he's being like this, and yet she just sat there smiling. It doesn't sit well with me.

Doppoetry I wonder if TP even understood the whole reason that Austen poked fun at these types of arrangements.

Let's ignore the Discworld for a second and realize that: Women didn't have many rights; marrying rich was expected of them, and unless they wanted to be in poverty, they had to either marry above their station or aim for equal to their own station.

Discworld has a slightly more progressive view of women, but we more often see the lower class- 1mo

Doppoetry -struggling and trying to stay above the poverty line. than we see any sort of upper-middle class.

We still get a lot of gender politics, and see how men have it better than women.

We also see it in all the times where 'Sybil signs off her property to her husband because it's traditional.' 1mo

Doppoetry Tl:dr: Austen made her commentary for a reason, and it's not just a “haha woman write romance novel“ let's actually understand why her books work and her commentary is relevant even today. ESPECIALLY for women 1mo

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Doppoetry

Snuff | Terry Pratchett

Just started this and I'm cakling so much at the P&P references

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BookishGirl06

Wintersong (Wintersong #1) | S. Jae-Jones

My next read

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lil1inblue

Outside Over There | Maurice Sendak

💙 Indoors - We had elaborate Barbie play. Big family trees, backstories, lots of drama, VERY soap-operatic. Outdoors - CAPTURE THE FLAG! So many great memories of playing this in our neighborhood.
💙Book - Someone got me a copy of Outside Over There when my sister was born. It had quite an impact, but also creeped me out! Movie - The Wizard of Oz. I loved when it was on TV once a year - we always made it a big event.
#wondrouswednesday @eggs

Eggs This hits close to home for me: Barbie extravaganza in the backyard with neighbor girls❤️And watching Oz once a year, oh my!! Thanks for waking these memories 😻 2mo

lil1inblue @Eggs 🤗🤗🤗 2mo

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TracyReadsBooks

A Market of Dreams and Destiny | Trip Galey

Author blurbs aren‘t always reliable but I‘m hoping Patrick Ness is right about this one…

bookandbedandtea I enjoyed this one ❤️ 5mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Snuff | Terry Pratchett

pick

Third reread. Still my favourite book. The one that got me out of a decade long reading slump, before I'd read any other Discworld books. Having now read all of them, and reread all the City Watch books, I'm overjoyed that it lives up to my memory. Vimes remains a character who you regularly see thoughtfully consider the challenge to his own assumptions and then do better as a result. Pratchett's writing in his voice is fully developed. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? While Thud! does a lot for Vimes, this is the only book that really moves from including Vimes as the head of an ensemble in the City Watch, to being primarily his story with a new supporting cast.

On that subject, Feeney is a wonderful addition because similar to Night Watch, you get to see Vimes in the role of imparting wisdom AND being reminded of his own flaws. The dialogue/attempts at punning regarding the pseudolanguage in reference 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? foreign cuisine and fighting styles doesn't age particularly well, but as a further way of underlining Vimes' continual journey from ignorance to fuller understanding while simultaneously indicating Freeney 's earnestness and potential, it works well.

I loved seeing Willikins fleshed out and put to full use in this story, it only makes me wish we'd seen more of him earlier. Obviously after Thud! you can't put that awesomeness back in the box 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? As much I remembered the reappearance of the Summoning Dark in this story, Willikins feels like the more eloquent depiction of a Vimes without the weight of the law, which is why he spends so much time being carefully, occasionally humorously reined in...most of the time...

The arc of the goblins is expertly plotted to travel from heartbreaking to uplifting, and stands as eloquent shorthand for any manner of oppressed and dehumanized groups 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/? throughout history.

It pains me to say that a little Sybil goes a long way because I always love her contributions, but Pratchett has created a character who rarely needs more than a couple of paragraphs to accomplish wonders, whether it's being a confidant to a spouse or changing the minds of society. Still happy to see her conscientiously woven into the plot as needed. 5mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 This time 'round I particularly felt the tying of ends, as much as they could be, for Nobby and Colon, the romance that might last for one, the dramatic shift of mindset that might last for the other. A footnote (though not literally 😉), but lovely possibilities offered. I can't honestly recall if they pop up in my books after this one, at the moment, so am happy to leave them in semi-retirement in the country.

⚠️ Speciesism, slavery 5mo

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