Guards! Guards!, by Terry Pratchett

Summary: People decide to summon a dragon as part of a plot to take over the city, but something goes wrong and the dragon takes control instead. It's up to Vimes and his compatriots to save the day.

Thoughts: Perhaps a bit long for my liking. Or maybe I just had a short attention span while finishing it. After all, I'd just watched two movies and spent much time in a futile attempt to work on ATM S hw (okay, it wasn't completely futile, just really frustrating). I do believe that's driven out any other thoughts I had about the book.

Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett

Summary: After the death of Ella's fairy godmother, Magrat, Nanny, and Granny find themselves taking on the role. And in the process trying to deduce what's going on.

Thoughts: I rather like the cynical view of fairy tales, and how, as usual, things come together in new and different ways. Quite a lovely story, even if I might've considered it a bit long had I had a chance to read it in one sitting (or even if I hadn't read a reasonable amount of it while a) in class and b) trying to tune out some movie or other)

Eric, by Terry Pratchett

Summary: Eric fancies himself a demonologist. However, when he tries to conjure a demon, he ends up with Rincewind, failed wizard and coward extrordinaire. When he demands three wishes and Rincewind tries to demonstrate that he can't comply, things start getting wierd.

Thoughts: Squee, everyone lives happily ever after! (even the demons!) Wow, I read that quickly. Then again, I was reading during two of my classes earlier, and it's a pretty short book and I read like half of it last night. Quite a good book. Be careful what you wish for; you never know who might be pulling the strings.

The Fifth Elephant, by Terry Pratchett

Summary: Sam Vimes gets sent to Uberwald as Ankh-Morpork's ambassador for the crowning of the Low King. Unfortunately, the Scone of Stone has disappeared, as has a replica from the Dwarf Bread Museum. And a rubber maker was found dead. So of course Vimes is far more interested in unravelling the crime than in being diplomatic.

Thoughts: OMG so hard to put that book down! (and yet it still took me like a week to read because so often I didn't have a chance to pick it up again after I had to put it down) Yeah, action, adventure, mystery...what more could a person ask for in a book?

Lords and Ladies, by Terry Pratchett

Summary: Invasion of the elves from an alternate reality. Er, that makes it sound like a bad sci-fi movie. It's not like that at all. It's more of a wholey human thing except for the elves messing with people's minds and so on. Okay, and the Librarian and some other typical Discworld stuff. Read it for yourself if you really want to have some idea what went on.

Thoughts: Squee, everyone lives happily ever after and hopefully learns a lesson about believing in onesself. And of course Pratchett manages to mutilate familiar stories. Or something like that. Quite possibly the best book I've read recently, although that could be due mostly to having little enough time to read any given day that I never had a chance to get bored reading so much in one go.

Cat's Eyewitness, by Rita Mae Brown

Summary: At a convent near Crozet Virginia, a statue of the Virgin Mary is seen to be crying blood. Harry is, of course, suspicious. Later, a man is found dead praying at the statue. It looks natural again, but Harry can't help but be suspicious of this too.

Thoughts: Woot, mystery! Happy happy joy joy. Not too much else to say given that the point of a mystery is trying to figure out whodunit, so I wouldn't want to give anything away. Oh, and there's also more plot and character development in the continuing saga of these characters. I can't help but wonder whether maybe I'm missing something by reading them out of order.

Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett

Summary: After King Verence invites a family of vampires to the christening of his daughter, the vampires decide this would be a good opportunity to take over the territory.

Thoughts: I think I would've enjoyed it more it it'd been shorter. It seems to contain useful life lessons, I mean beyond how one can kill a vampire. If I could be bothered to think, I might be able to mention what some of them are.