55, WG31, E48, / NG24, D7, C1, Frz0, B1, NA0

Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

Einige Discworldbände stehen noch Schlange, um gelesen zu werden und bei der Witchesreihe gehört dies auf jeden Fall dazu, schon weil Pratchetts Sicht auf Vampire einfach so erfrischend anders und zutreffend ist. Und wie Granny Weatherwax die 'moderne' Vampirfamilie, die so mir nichts dir nichts ihr Revier übernehmen will, mit ihren eigenen Waffen schlägt, ist immer eine Wonne zu lesen.
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Nanny reflected that Agnes read books. All the witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books, but you couldn't, the reason being that the words got in the way.
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She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said 'mother', everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said 'child'...
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Oats sighed. 'Many people find faith a great solace,' he said. He wished he was one of them.
'Good.'
'Really? Somehow I thought you'd argue.'
'It's not my place to tell 'em what to believe, if they act decent.'
'But it's not something that you feel drawn to, perhaps, in the darker hours?'
'No. I've already got a hot water bottle.'
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(Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum, 1998)