Status Updates From 貓鼠奇譚

Ich kann mich grad einfach nicht konzentrieren. Liebe Pratchett und das Buch wirkt cute, aber ich komm einfach nicht voran. Too much going on.

funny and uncanny at the same time.
similar vibe as with the vampire-controlled town in some other Discworld novel (Capre Jugulum or Fifth Elephant?)

Daily Pratchett:
Keith looked up. His eyes narrowed. He got to his feet.
Here it comes, thought Maurice. He’s going to leap forward with superhuman strength because he’s so angry and they’re going to wish he’d never been born …
Keith leapt forward with ordinary human strength, landed one punch on Rat-catcher 1 and was smacked to the floor again by a big, brutal, sledgehammer blow.

Daily Pratchett:
She leaned against the wall with incredible nonchalance. There was not a click. A panel in the floor did not slide back. ‘Probably the wrong place,’ she said. ‘I’ll just rest my arm innocently on this coat hook.’ A sudden door in the wall completely failed to happen. ‘Of course, it’d help if there was an ornate candlestick,’ said Malicia. ‘They’re always a sure-fire secret passage lever."

Apparently his first YA. Stars a talking cat and talking rats. Love it

Daily Maurice:
A sense of smell that was, as far as Maurice could understand it, almost as good as sight and sound and speech all put together. For example, the rat always turned to face Maurice and looked directly at him when he spoke. It was uncanny. Maurice had known a blind cat that walked into doors a lot, but Dangerous Beans never did that.