It was *such* a great read. Have been looking forward eagerly to book 2 in November!

Reader, I went back and bought them 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's fascinating to see from these pulled quotes, over and over again, how much of my worldview and social philosophy was guided (maybe even formed) by reading Pratchett in my 20s. He should be required reading. Especially the Vimes series.

Likewise, some of us can remember the arcane docket system used to pay for your book.
It was almost like they didn’t want to sell you books 🤔😂

Depends if you’re referencing the old building pre-2014 or the new one, two blocks down the road from the old one

But they are so pretty 🥺

If it helps (as someone who only started a couple of years ago) you almost always spend proportionally much longer on the first few rows than you do on any other part of the project 😁

My first joyous experience of Tom Holt was “Who’s afraid of Beowulf” (& then I went back and read “Expecting someone Taller”) so now I feel significantly older than I did a few mins ago 😋

When you go to pre-order and then realise you already pre-ordered book 1 in Sep… 😋
(took the opportunity to pre-order book 2 though 😁)

“After long silence” was published as “The enigma score” in the UK & I read it in the 90s
When I was hunting for her back catalogue in 2nd hand book stores in the 00s in USA, Canada, Aus & NZ on my travels this caused utter confusion (pre internet) until I found a copy of ALS and realised it was TES