Rainbow Ravenclaw

The Royal We is by far not a typical book for me to read. To be honest deciding to read this was as much influenced by the very low price of the kindle version as by the fact that the wonderful Prinzessin Paradox suggested it to me. Before starting the book I checked out the reviews on goodreads and there was one (the most popular one) which stayed with me throughout the book.  " This is 100 percent Kate Middleton fan fiction and I have absolutely no problem with that." This is in my opinion exactly the mindset, with which to start reading this and you might just find yourself enjoying it  immensely . Especially because even though it is very much "reality based" (and yes some characters are immediately recognizable), it is not as much devoted to an idea of a fairytale royal romance as one might imagine.  In fact, in a genius meta move the book I expected to read does exist in the fictional world of The Royal We and is called the Bexicon. There the sto

"most men don't fear death, they fear those things - the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb - which precede, by microseconds if you're lucky, and many years if you're not, the moment of death." Shaking Hands With Death is not a typical book by Terry Pratchett. Firstly, it is a little booklet with only 59 pages. Secondly, it is not set in the Discworld or in any other fantastic space. Thirdly, it contains the speech he gave as The Richard Dimblebly Lecture in 2010. The book itself consists of two parts. An introduction by Rob Wilkins and the speech by Pratchett. Pratchett, who has died in March 2015 after years of him living with Alzheimer's disease. The introduction is as much part of the book as is the speech itself because it describes how Pratchett struggled (because of his illness) to write (he could not type) and deliver (someone else had to read it for him) the speech. This view into his life is an important perspective to remember when