One of my favorite authors is Terry Pratchett. I find his books to be wonderfully funny and entertaining; light reading to be sure but always with a chewy intellectual center.  If you haven’t read Wee Free Men well…really you are just missing out.  Go out right now and get the new illustrated version, especially if you have a youngster around the house. I am so happy that he was just recently knighted.  Why Elton John got to go first I’ll never understand, but still many congratulations to Sir Terry.

Sir Pratchett suffers from a version of early-onset Alzheimer’s and in addition to continuing to write books he has spoken out strongly about the need for more research.  As someone who has watched a family member suffer through dementia, I am so glad he is speaking out so loudly.

Here’s an article about his condition that he wrote for a British newspaper:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1070673/Terry-Pratchett-Im-slipping-away-bit-time–I-watch-happen.html

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