Journal Entry 1 by SheWhoReads from Athens, Georgia USA on Monday, August 02, 2004

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This is one of my all-time favorite fantasy novels. It's part of Terry Pratchett's multi-volume and multi-faceted Discworld series, but you don't need to have read the other books to make sense of this one; it stands perfectly well on its own.

This is an incredibly clever and witty retelling of Shakespeare's MacBeth, using the Discworld characters of Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat as the three witches. It's a great deal of fun to read. I mean, the title page reads "Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (Starring Three Witches, also kings, daggers, crowns, storms, dwarfs, cats, ghosts, spectres, apes, bandits, demons, forests, heirs, jesters, tortures, trolls, turntables, general rejoicing, and divers alarums.)" Come on -- how can you not love a book that starts like that?

Here's the back cover blurb:

ALL THE DISC'S A STAGE....

And when three witches have their monthly cauldron stirring disturbed by murder, mayhem, and the sudden arrival of a royal baby, trouble is bound to be brewed up in the little kingdom of Lancre. Especially when the witches are Granny Weatherwax and her spell sisters, who give the noble heir and his crown away to a passing troupe of actors. But the ghost of the children's father insists that the witches find the hidden princeling and help him wrest the kingdom away from the regicide who's running it now -- a ruler who thinks that witches should pay taxes like everyone else. Though Granny is now angry enough to try to move the town years ahead of its time, and set the stage for a final act in which the rightful king is crowned, there's the chance that someone will rewrite the script before she gets all the actors in place! 

Journal Entry 2 by SheWhoReads at Aderhold Hall, UGA in Athens, Georgia USA on Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Released on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 at Aderhold Hall, UGA in Athens, Georgia USA.

I plan to leave this book in the ladies' room on the third floor. I will come back and edit this entry with more details after I come back.

Edited to Add: I changed my mind and left this book sitting on a bench outside the doors of Aderhold Hall instead. It's on the side of the building that faces the bus stop, not the side that lets out into the parking lot.