Time to admit: I am a giant Pete Townshend fan. I fell into The Who two years ago and have gone down the rabbit hole that has eventually led me to this creative writing.

Pete finished this when he was 68 years old, and luckily I am parasocial enough to figure out where he is coming from in this novel.

It's dedicated to his wife Rachel Fuller (28 year age difference between the two of them). She is present in two of the characters: Maude, who is married to a rock musician turned artistic-crazy-cave-living hermit, and also the character of Selena, whose a real 'woo-woo wacky I see angels and feel spirits' kind of young gal.

Our main character Louis (aka Pete if he had continued with his art degree life) loves his godson Walter (who is also Pete, but this is the Pete that stuck with The Who). While Louis observes the other men in Walter's band/sphere and for each man he makes a comment on whether they would be a fighter/be good in a fight. Spoiler: they all are fighters/would be good in a fight.

We have a plethora of sexy women. Two sexy middle aged women, one sexy daughter, a pair of sexy sisters, and one sexy friend of said sisters. All the women are all very hot and you will be surprised to find out how many of them Louis has had sex with.

It's entirely all creative male ego fantasy, mixed with paragraphs that describe soundscapes, since Pete himself has written an opera to accompany the book (this music has not been released).

There was one reference to how The Who suck because they sold out (that is funny), and I caught one reference to a song (Anyway. Anyhow. Anywhere).

Is it a terrible book? Maybe! But I had fun reading it. Would only recommend for real Pete Townshend sickos like me!

Finding Terry Pratchett was like finding a missing piece of my soul. The Discworld continues to giveth, this time in a SO CLEVER theatrical way.

I often have to put his books down for a moment to utter a hearty guffaw or to write down an important quote, and Wyrd Sisters was no different.

I love Granny Weatherwax's ruminations on the power of words, I love the Easter eggs to all of the Shakespeare ("the pay's the thing!", and I love TP so very, very much.

A must read for any John and Paul freek. An incredibly thorough look into the songs the boys wrote, the relationship they formed, and their complicated feelings towards each other.

I will never hear A Day in the Life without thinking about how they made that final piano note.

I read this book 20 years ago (when I was 20, time be flying), and I remember I liked it. So it was time to give it another go-around, and gosh have my tastes changed!

I haven't read a King book in so long and I forgot that he's a big old Freek. Graphic depictions of slicing testicles kind of Freek. And I've realized that I'm not looking for visceral, eye popping out, slice and dice graphic murder.

What I did like about this book is the concept. Writer Thad Beaumont creates a nom de plume that supernaturally comes alive and goes on a killing spree. Themes of having two people inside of us, and as a creative, what happens when we go to those darker places for our art.