03-22-2026, 08:38 AM
#16: Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett. Basically, it’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Discworld with an intelligent orangutan and bees. The veil between worlds has grown thin and humanity’s only hope is that three witches of questionable intelligence or priorities can stand between them and the elves that want to take over their kingdom. Like all Pratchett’s books it is simultaneously silly and serious with occasionally excellent puns in the footnotes. And in the end I’m quite hopeful that the newly married Magrat and her fool might figure out what sex is.
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