have you made or tried black cake? i would love to hear your story! ~ i thought i’d share more info as i helped my partner make caribbean black rum cakes recently, around the holidays, with her 5 year old rum soaked fruit! 🍒🍇🍊 it was amazing!! it’s a spiced cake (cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves) with a deep fruity undertone ~and my love paired it with an apple butter caramel ✨🥰 we’re planning to start a few new jars of rum soaked fruit soon to age for future cakes ~with dried mango, cherry, blueberry, apricot, and golden raisins!

it feels like perfect timing to read this book, with one black cake left in our freezer, and i’m really enjoying the story so far! (around 30%)

So far I'm really enjoying this book compared to the first two discworld novels. I liked being introduced to the world through the Color of Magic and the Light Fantastic, and I enjoyed the characters and thought it was a goofy fun time, so I'm glad I started there. I do think though that I'm going to enjoy this book a lot more than those first two. I already really like the characters in this one and I like that even though the unserious tone is still there, it doesn't feel quite as much like a sitcom. I'm very interested to see where this goes.

I don't want the book to end, TT. The only thing that makes me feel better is that I've just started the series—still many more books to go. If I had the money and the space, I think this would be a buy-all-the-books series.

Greetings and Salutations! 👋 I am OhMyDio, the current holder of the Discworld Quest, here to invite you to a cross-quest readalong!

The Color of Magic by Sir Terry Pratchett is what I like to call a Triple Threat. This delightful tome is on three quests: Discworld, Epic Sci-Fi & Fantasy, and Iconic Series. So we're gonna do a three way cross-quest readalong!

What is the Discworld? The Discworld is a flat planet on the backs of 4 elephants standing on a giant space turtle. It is a comedy fantasy series spanning 41 books, and the Color of Magic is the first book, although not the only entry point into the series. There are multiple series within Discworld, ranging from witches to city watch guards to Death himself. The Color of Magic is the first book published, and the first installment of the Rincewind novels.

What's The Color of Magic about? Rincewind, a very incompetent wizard, is hired as the tour guide for Twoflower, an insurance agent and the very first tourist on holiday to Ankh-Morpork, a town with a lavishly rich underbelly not entirely safe for people with as much disposable income as Twoflower. With an oddly intelligent and feisty luggage trunk in tow, Rincewind is tasked with keeping Twoflower safe from peril in the city.

The Deets: We'll start the first week of February and go through the end of March. If you need (or want) to start earlier or end later, please do! There currently is not specific functionality for buddy reads, and to accommodate different reading styles and timelines we won't set a specific reading schedule. Read at your own pace and join us in the forums as you are able! I'll endeavor to post at consistent intervals, and I hope you all will join in and together we can make the forum lively and robust!

I've cross-posted this to the other two Quest forums (after consulting those Quest owners) so I hope we'll get a large gaggle of folks together - and hopefully we'll all be able to connect with more Bounders who share similar book tastes!

If you have questions please let me know! Thanks for reading this far & I hope you can join us, either now or following behind at a later time.

Happy reading! 💕🎉

(I have posted an apology but wanted to leave this up as a reminder to myself and others) I see a lot of people on here talking about audio books and counting these as reads towards their goals. First I want to say I have absolutely no issue with this but for some reason I can't bring myself to count audio books towards my reading goal as to me it doesn't feel like I've truly 'read' it. Maybe it's because I'm constantly listening to media (I sleep with podcasts on and listen on the way too and from the train station) but I guess it doesn't feel like I worked for it and kind of like 'cheating'. Wondering what people's thoughts are (again I am not putting anyone down for audio books this is just a personal thought of mine)