In the fourteenth part of\u00c2\u00a0Carpe Jugulum<\/i>, Granny heads after her friends, and Verence prepares. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Granny<\/b><\/p>\n
If there was any character in the history of the\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0books who could resist the conversion to a vampire\u00c2\u00a0entirely<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0with their mind, then it was Granny Weatherwax. This whole section is the result of the mental battle she had with the darkness in part 13, and good lord, is it satisfying. Yes, it is badass that Granny was able to mentally refuse to be a vampire (INCREDIBLE!!!), but I also appreciated that Pratchett didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make it\u00c2\u00a0that<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0simple.<\/p>\n
Because physically? That woman still lost a\u00c2\u00a0lot<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0of blood, and you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really\u00c2\u00a0will<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0yourself out of the effects of that, can you? Yet Granny certainly tries to. She ignores Mightily Oats\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s question about whether or not she got turned. (Which I interpreted as her way of saying that it was silly that he asked in the first place.) Instead, she sets out to get shit done as she always does: over a cup of tea. Now, Pratchett reveals quite a few things through this, like the fact that THE PHOENIX LAID MORE THAN ONE EGG. I am completely unsure what it is about the phoenix that Granny believes will prove advantageous to her, but hey. The Magpyrs hate the phoenix, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to assume that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just like the Nac mac Feegle. There must be\u00c2\u00a0something<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0about them that can be used against vampires. Perhaps it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s their ability to adapt? Maybe\u00c2\u00a0that<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0is the clue. BECAUSE I DIDN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW THAT THE PHOENIX COULD CHANGE ITS APPEARANCE IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like instantaneous evolution!<\/p>\n
Adaptation seems to be a major theme of this novel anyway, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rather fitting to know that an adaptable phoenix is now part of the action. But so will Mightily Oats, given that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to help Granny get to Uberwald to rendezvous with Nanny and Magrat. (I just realized that this would be a reunion of the original trio!) What Granny is going to do there is a mystery to me, though; I also assumed that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d do something at the castle now that it was unoccupied. However, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pleased at this turn of events for a purely selfish reason: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always wanted to see what Uberwald is like. All we know if it is secondhand, either from random characters or from Angua. WE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122RE GOING TO UBERWALD, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M SO THRILLED.<\/p>\n
Magrat and Granny<\/b><\/p>\n
Pratchett briefly checks in on these two, and again: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m selfishly pleased because I miss Magrat, and any chance to get her in scenes with Nanny or Granny (or both!) are welcomed by me. Their conversation \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about baby Esme, about Granny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s borrowing, about the plan to save Verence \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is rather sweet, a testament to how close these two became over the years. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just so\u00c2\u00a0honest<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0with each other in a vulnerable way that you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see as much in their first book. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why Nanny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so willing to offer up her advice for how Verence can be taken more seriously. She\u00c2\u00a0does<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0care about Magrat, and she wants her friend to be happy. At the same time, she tells it like it is, though not as cruelly as Granny can be at times. In the end, Nanny sees herself and Magrat and Agnes and Granny as just a little different from everyone else:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re always all right. You remember that. We happen to other people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In that moment, even if Nanny was talking to the Queen, she was speaking like she was talking to a fellow witch.<\/p>\n Verence<\/b><\/p>\n Look, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know\u00c2\u00a0why<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0the Nac mac Feegle are getting Verence to take up a sword, but I kind of don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care. I love the idea of them teaching him to fight and storming the castle and taking it back from the Magpyr clan, all with the help of Big Aggie and all the other pixies. I HOPE THERE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S A RIDICULOUS TRAINING SCENE.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5OVPcQHLUhE<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – I am now on Patreon<\/a>! There are various levels of support, from $1 up to whatever you want! You’ll get to read a private blog, extra reviews, and other such rewards. I POST A LOT OF CUTE PHOTOS, OKAY. Think of it like a private Tumblr blog that only SPECIAL PEOPLE get to read.<\/b> In the fourteenth part of\u00c2\u00a0Carpe Jugulum, Granny heads after her friends, and Verence prepares. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[526,463,248],"class_list":["post-4124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","tag-carpe-jugulum","tag-mark-reads-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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