What BOOK are you reading right now?

Noddy - glad to find another fan. I agree with your analysis. But, I did enjoy Thud! I will continue plugging through te whole lot of the discworld books (and beyond). I am happy to have found such a prolific author to like.

littlek, have you read the book good omens that pratchett cowrote with neil gaiman

Good Omens

just recently read "A Couris Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Hadden

but now i am reading Bewolf

djjd--

I adored Good Omens. That is a book worthy of its re-release. I'm particularly partial to the aspiring motorcycle gang. Evil can be gloriously banal.

Littlek--

What other Pratchett have you read?

Last night I read a short story by Alice Munroe.

It's amazing to me how she can write about the darkest corners of a womans mind.

This story was called "Tricks"

When I finished it my heart ached so bad, and I felt so frustrated for what had happened.

Do any male readers out there enjoy her?

I had to go tell the story to my husband as soon as I finished it, ending with saying to him "Isn't the just terrible?"

Him: yeah.

Me: but.....but....can't you imagine how you'd feel if that happened to you?!"

Him: yeah

has anyone else read this one, or can I tell the story (it's brief) here?

I haven't read good omens yet!.

I have read:

Colour of Magic
Equal Rites
Small Gods (which I loved)
The Last Continent
The Wee Free Men (also love this one and it's follow up which was....)
A Hat Full of Sky

and saw Soul Music and one with the Wyrd Sisters as animated movies.

I have Monsterous Regimens and may read that next if I feel I can get through it this week.

I'm very partial to all the Granny Weatherwax novels. Granny and Nanny Og are formidable women.

I've just started re-reading "Snow falling on Cedars" (Guterson) for the second time, after finding it lurking in the bookshelf, hidden behind some other books.

I thoroughly enjoyed it two or three years ago, and am really into it again now.

I'm not familiar with that particular story but I agree she is an amazing writer. Of course, I believe it's a requirement for Canadian citizenship (especially if you're female) to read Alice Munroe. Luckily it's no hardship.
If you're partial to short stories, you might like Bronwen Wallace, another Canadian writer (who unfortunately died young). Her collection, called "People You'd Trust Your Life To" is so good I own it. (My husband refuses to build any more bookshelves; I'm really picky about what I keep).

Noddy - I adore Granny Weatherwax!

"Bury my heart at wounded knee" - Dee Brown.

Very sad, but what an eye opener.

I started Monsterous Regimens and am about 1/3 through it. It is markedly similar to Thud! and they were written within 3 years of eachother.

This is the first year Pratchett hasn't written two novels, one for the spring and one for the fall.

There was no spring novel this year. The third installment of Tiffany Aching's adventures will be released the first week in October.

Wow! You really are a big fan! I guess my calling Pratchett prolific was an understatement.

Littlek--

I've spent a number of years looking forward to the Spring and Fall releases.

http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/

Mutige Frauen
30 Portraits aus 5 Jahrhunderten

and

A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson

Recently finished reading

"Running with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs

and

"Pearl" by Mary Gordon

Wouldn't recommend either, they were both disappointing and I actually wished I hadn't wasted money on the Pearl book. Quite rare that I think that!

Heeven -- Warning others off a book is valuable. BTW, I read Beloved in a day this past weekend.

"No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy. A page turner, but not for the faint of heart!

I'm still reading Paul Theroux's Hotel Honolulu, about 60% through - it's getting to the 'can't put it down' stage.

I've two Cormac McCarthys waiting for me - Cities of the Plain, and All the Pretty Horses....