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With a normal Christmas ruined, I felt the need to load my batteries with the maximum amount of Christmas content. I've listened to absurd amounts of Christmas music of dubious quality, watched Die Hard for the first time, drank my sorrows away with mulled wine, and now felt charitable enough to finally give Discworld another chance after realising this is probably the closest the fantasy genre has to a Christmas novel!

The result? This might be my favourite Discworld novel out of the ones I've tried so far. Could potentially have been caused by the festive mood, but who knows? I enjoyed both the humour, the ridiculousness of the parallel world solar festival traditions, and the philosophical explorations of human nature.

Hogfather is a fascinating little tale basically describing the Grim Reaper having to masquerade as Santa Claus, and ending up discovering a whole lot about what's important to people and their customs.

All in all, a good package.