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Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

Terry Pratchett

Start date: May 1, 2021

Finish date: May 31, 2021

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May 07, 2015 Catsalive rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: pre-bc, 2023, 2015

So much fun to be re-reading the first introduction to Granny Weatherwax. What a woman! Acute, witty & well-written. Such cool beginnings in the world of Disc.

.Plodding through the eternal void is the great turtle A'Tuin. On his back (or hers - the question is unresolved) stand four elephants. And supported on the elephants' shoulders is ... Discworld, planet of magic and misadventure!

Predicting his own death, the wizard Drum Billet sets out to pass on his power and his staff to his predicted su ...more

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Oct 16, 2025 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Shelves: read-in-2025, fantasy, magic, wizard, witches

A dying wizard travels to a remote village in the Ramtop mountains to pass on his powers to the eighth son of an eighth son but the wizard dies before realizing the baby is a girl. In Discworld men are wizards and women are witches. Unfortunately the magic passed on to Esk doesn't realize this. Granny Weatherwax tries to teach Esk how to be a witch but when that doesn't work they travel to Ankh-Morpork to get Esk admitted to Unseen University, the wizards school that only admits men. This is an ...more

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Aug 27, 2022 Jenn rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, 2022-finished

3.5 stars

This was a fun read. It appears we've moved on from the main characters in the first 2 books to Eskarina (Esk) and Granny Weatherwax.

There was a slight mistake at Esk's birth that will lead her on her adventures. A wizard, Drum Billet, was looking for a man who was the eighth son who had an eighth son. What didn't get said was that Smith eighth child wasn't a son, but a daughter, but it was never said and the wizard gave the baby his staff to hold. This would cause a ripple as no female ...more

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Jan 27, 2015 Cora rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, wizards, humor, witches, british, british-author, series, lost-in-fire

In the Discworld, wizard are men and witches are women. That is just the way it is, until a wizard accidentally passes his magical power to a baby girl instead of a baby boy. No one is sure what to do with the girl, Esk, who is manifesting wizard magic. Granny Weatherwax, the local witch, takes the girl under her wing and tries to train her to be a witch. Soon it is obvious to Granny that the girl's magic is different than witch magic and she reluctantly decides to take Esk to Unseen University ...more

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Aug 17, 2021 Kat rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: family-book-club, 2021

My second attempt at Pratchett and his famous disc world fell into my hand due to someone’s choose for family book club. It was on the shorter side, but it was not faster. You really need to concentrate or you will miss a joke, a complication, a new detail or made up world. It’s almost exhausting, but I powered through. (If I didn’t have a deadline I may have let this one sit around my bedside table for a while).

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