Thud!

I thought I only had a fondness for the paperback cover as it's the version I originally read from the library, but after I shelled out for the collector's hardback, I realized I actually like the paperback cover more! Oops. Oh well, I love this book enough to own it twice. This reread got right me in the feels! Glad to be re-reading Snuff next because right now this and it are neck and neck for my fave Vimes book. 

Elaborating on the feels: I think the first time I read Thud! what stood out most was Sam's shouted reading of ‘Where's My Cow' in Koom Valley, but this time it was Sybil, trying to convince herself everything was okay moments before Sam's rendition. She's such a rock normally, that realizing that she does take strength from Sam's steadiness, she does understand the sakes and can be very worried, just got to me. Brick, too, had me emotional; I think upon my first read, caught up in the mystery, he felt like an important clue that kept wandering off, but this time it was so clear, how little he'd had anyone to care for him, how Shine saved him, and Detritus taking him under his wing:🥺. There was a whole ‘we need better societal structures so various at risk communities, like those getting addicted to very dangerous drug admixtures, don't fall through the cracks' commentary wandering through this political/historical murder mystery! Which itself was an incredible statement on choosing peace.