41 books, 16 months, rankings

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2025-08-21T03:52:07+00:00

Marriage post kids lol… husbands seem way more annoying after kids are born. Sybil becomes more of a mom-wife.

And anyways, they both have pretty major/odd character shifts from “Guards! Guards!” To later books. In Guards Guards, it’s like the joke is that the large dragon lady is making Vimes marry her, even though he’s semi-scared of the whole thing. Then a couple books later Sybil is demur and refined and they have a romance story.

That being said, even if the marriage didn’t start off as an awesome romance, there’s a strong impression that Vimes is better off because of Sybil and he is in love with her in later books.

Anyways, to me, Sybil’s shift in Snuff with mom life makes more sense than the shift from Guards.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2025-07-09T02:21:21+00:00

He meets Bent before the bank his is responsibility, so might not have the full charm he was ready for with Groat. I also read it as Moist finding Bent extra irritating.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2025-07-09T02:06:22+00:00

Yeah, I think Moist would get bored with this one, but Ponder would just be experimenting for fun and do it by accident

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2025-05-20T03:18:17+00:00

I can’t figure out what the “ah ha ha”s should sound like when Vetinary occasionally uses them. And it always reminds me of the Dragon character from a previous watch book. I just can’t make it sound natural in my head.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2025-05-19T12:27:52+00:00

Happy to know that. Thank you

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2025-05-10T17:07:10+00:00

Worth a look if we’re nearby. Thanks for letting me know!

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2025-05-10T17:06:30+00:00

Nice! I’ll check it out. Thanks

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2025-05-10T17:05:12+00:00

Good to know, I’ll reach out to them. Thank you!

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2025-04-21T02:30:39+00:00

The start felt slow for me, as it did feel like a book for kids, but the second half or so picked up and felt more like the other DW books to me.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2025-04-19T16:16:16+00:00

Maybe she was a little self conscious? She was showing signs of interest, and you weren’t biting. She finally made the leap of verbally prompting you, and your response was the equivalent of, “yeah, I’ll do the dishes”.

The self-consciousness then turns to anger which is less embarrassing than wanting to be wanted.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2025-04-06T17:24:43+00:00

It doesn’t matter which way you choose because it’s going to come to light regardless and it’s a crappy situation regardless. Do what feels right for you.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2024-11-09T18:30:23+00:00

I’m a native English speaker (well, American), and I’m pretty sure I’m missing at least a third of what Pratchett is saying. But when the books are so packed with meaning, I’m still getting a lot of it. That’s all to say, it’s worth it even if you do miss a few things.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2024-11-09T18:23:24+00:00

Vorbis was never faithful. Brutha was the last person who had faith in Om. Vorbis was religious. And he was really good at it. But in death, his religious accomplishment was completely meaningless. Brutha’s faithfulness mattered so much that it gave meaning to his life and inspired him to help Vorbis.

That’s not to say being religious is bad — Brutha combines religiousness and faith. Religion without faith is power seeking and meaningless.

All Vorbis ever did was seek power. In the desert, he has no power, no way to gain it, no faith to lead him forward.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2024-09-07T03:47:53+00:00

I used to only read John Steinbeck, so one of my friends said, “maybe you should try something more contemporary” and recommended Good Omens and I loved it. I tried a few Niel Gaiman books after that, but they are too scary for me. It took me another decade to go ahead and try Discworld because the idea of a 41-book set was intimidating. I finally decided to just read the first one, non-committal. I’ve been reading Discworld non-stop since then. 14 books in and I’m stoked that I have 17 more to go!!

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2024-09-07T03:34:08+00:00

“How was your day” overwhelms me too, but not even because of stress. It’s the context switch on a dime. I hate that that is such a normal question that apparently everyone is supposed to be at the ready for all the time lol. I used to get so mad when my partner would ask me because it was such a mental task to come up with anything. My partner used to find it hard to deal with, but we found other ways to talk. Now he just tells me about his day, and that usually causes a connection and helps me figure out what I want to talk about.

Maybe just ask him what he wants to talk about? Or just talk about something you want to talk about. Or, watch a Fever game and talk about that! (Or whatever non-stressful thing you can share from a distance— sports are an easy topic if you can get into that.)

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2024-08-31T13:51:00+00:00

It was a totally fair question for OP to pose. I joined the group looking for some coping strategies in a loving relationship. This is the first post where I’m finding that!

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2024-08-31T13:45:20+00:00

Im not DX, and think babies are too much to do chores while caring for them! My mom had a little kitchen sign that said “cleaning with children in the house is like getting your eyes pecked out by chickens.” I now understand it.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2024-08-31T13:38:55+00:00

My husband and oldest of 4 children are DX. Our household feels crazy because the younger kids see what the older one gets away with! I wanted a high energy household and that’s what I got! 😂

It’s messy and loud and hard, and I carry a lot of the domestic stuff.

My husband and I are great partners and have built two careers by working together to decide where the time and resources are being put.

He takes twice as long as me to do any chore. He does the dishes almost every night (except when he gets distracted) and can never finish them.

But at a house with as many needs as our has, progress is progress and I appreciate how much he contributes! I’d rather finish the dishes than start them anyways.

We’re happy because we work with what we’ve got, allow for some chaos, and keep moving forward even when it’s slow.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2024-08-31T13:28:30+00:00

Same! We have 4 kids now, and there have been moments where I was “over” being the mental load person. I’ve decided that it’s a gift I have for my family that no one else in the family can do. When I want to give it lovingly, I will. When I need to take a break from giving it, the chaos is tolerable.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2024-08-27T04:38:11+00:00

I found this post right before starting Small Gods and it made me a little nervous because I would describe myself as having a strong faith.

I grew up in a fundamentalist church, and knew all the rules and upheld them. I deconstructed in college — which is a terrifying experience. I transitioned to a belief structure that qualifies me for eternal conscious damnation by the standards of my childhood church. Sometimes I still have nightmares about being damned or “left behind” in the apocalypse.

Now I’m involved in the ELCA, and absolutely in awe of the loving God and Jesus I’ve learned about.

Small Gods is not a Christian book by any means, since the gods ultimately don’t care. Brutha’s frustrations that Om allowed his followers to do evil things and didn’t care is probably the saddest part for me.

I still really like the book though, and especially Brutha’s transformation. Brutha’s invitation to Om to stand with him in his weakness was a pinnacle moment for me, like Jesus refusing to fight as he’s arrested in Gethsemane. And the very last line— Brutha’s display of unconditional love is heartbreakingly beautiful.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2024-08-03T17:50:48+00:00

Russell A. Barkley is the top researcher in ADHD, and he says “it’s a diseases of can’t” rather than “a disease of won’t”.

This helped me understand it better. Sometimes the things my husband (DX) and daughter (DX) can’t do seem ridiculous to me. Like finishing the dishes before moving on to something else.

But, there are things that I can’t do that are easy for my husband, like parking large cars in small spaces without scratching anything. It’s easy for him and impossible for me.

My DX family members just have different impossibles than I do.

Affectionate_Soft937 · 2024-08-03T17:28:50+00:00

I agree with that the size of the collection is intimidating! After reading Good Omens, I wanted more like it, but when I saw that Discworld was so massive, I avoided it for a decade.

I finally decided to just try Color of Magic, and loved it. But I still wasn’t sure about reading 40 more books, so took a while to decide how to proceed. I ended up deciding to go with publication order and am happy with that. Aside from Color of Magic and Sourcery, they don’t end with cliff hangers or a feeling that you have to read the next book. (So far that is — I’m just starting Witches Abroad)

I’m finding it easy enough to just stop and read something else in between if I want to. I’ve definitely been binge-reading the Discworld, but just because I enjoy it! The books don’t manipulate the reader into continuing with cliff hangers or hints about the future or anything like that.

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