Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series is one of my all time favorites. I love Tiffany Aching, and aspire to be as mature as she was at 9. Of course, she was written by a grown man, but still, we find our role models where we may. The Wee Free Men is Tiffany’s debut. She is 9, the second to last of a large family who farm and raise sheep on The Chalk, work’s in her family farm’s dairy (which she loves), and watches her baby […]
The Witches go to The Opera.
The last time we saw the Witches, they were ushering off their third member into the perils of marriage, and to a King, no less. Anyway, Magrat’s gone now, and things are going funny without a third to balance things out. Nanny Ogg in particular is worried about Granny Weatherwax, who is terrifying under the best of circumstances. They take a trip to Ankh-Morpork after Granny learns that Nanny wrote a book that is a bestseller, but has gotten no royalties from the swindling publisher. […]
“People don’t alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.”
I’m continuing on with my march through the Discworld novels, and after having realized that I had perhaps gone too far down one path without veering off to some others in my review of Maskerade I decided to go back to the beginning and pick another tack to start down. Luckily for me my friend Alison had already lent me Mort, the fourth book in the series, and the first of the Death centric books. I was excited, I really liked when Death made his […]
If his middle name is Luck, his first name must be Bad.
One of the worst curses you can fling at a Discworld character is “May you live in interesting times,” hence the title of the book. But aside from it’s promising title, the 17th Discworld book was a bit of a letdown after the fitting soulful musings of Soul Music, but it almost made up for it in sheer volume of jokes and witticisms alone. I wanted to quote something practically every other page. The perfect Discworld book is funny, biting, and deep-hitting. This one was […]