Ahh I love the Tiffany Aching series so much. I live quite near the chalk horse that inspired the one in the series, so these books really feel like home to me. I’m looking forward to reaching them in my full Discworld reread too.
That is so neat! I hadn't even realized the place had a real inspiration other than very generally, I just lookes up the chalk horse and that is super cool! Gives me a new perspective. I think Terry did a great job of building that feeling of these places being home, even for those of us who have never been.
...and here we are a couple weeks later, just getting to this, and Elena Knows is still on the shelf. I am excited for it though, excellent to hear your praise for it. I saw she has another book coming/out, so I already need to catch up on her new releases if this one works for me.
I have Wee Free Men, but haven't read it quite yet. I'm a noob with discworld. I've read 5 and not in order! I have Repairman on hold... just waiting. I'm excited about Katie's series too! Glad the health issue wasn't major.
I was momentarily confused by repairman, but that is a brilliant autocorrect I'm absolutely sure Terry would have appreciated. I very strongly maintain that the preferred reading order the first time for anyone, rather than all the complex charts and subseries, is to simply pick up whatever book is most readily at hand 😄 I think you will be very charmed by Tiffany whenever you do get to Wee Free Men.
Tiffany's story is a real journey, it can be so hard to go on with knowing the last is the very last, I had a hard time getting to it. I was recently thinking about if I had an over all favorite of the series, and I still don't know, but kept circling back to Shepherds Crown.
For Discworld, I've only read Going Postal but I'm hoping to read Hogfather around the holidays. Your editions are gorgeous. I hope you're feeling better.
I'm kind of an outlier in that I like Hogfather for haloween more than being for christmas, though the holiday in it is indeed a barely obscured version of christmas. It is one of the darkest of the series. The adaptation is also excellent! The guy who was the man with thistledown hair in the Jonathan Strange adaptation had earlier played a villain in this, and pulled from that role as his inspiration when doing the creepy fae in Strange. Slowly but surely feeling better, thank you!
Japanese has been very slow, it is so difficult! I've been working at it for nearly a year and a half daily, still not even close. I don't know if you have Libby (or if you do if the collection your library has is worthwhile), but one of my tricks has been using that, because there are lots of magazines in languages other than english available, so might be worth checking if available, then you have something you can leaf thru at will that shows up routinely or not if you don't have time and it isn't a big deal.
The Wee Free Men sounds interesting...I have 2 questions: First, do you need to read at least some of the Discworld books first? Secondly, you said the heroine was young...is this directed towards a younger audience?
Yes, because of Tiffany Aching's age and the strong coming of age journey as a plot arc, some people think it is YA - though I don't think it has ever been specifically sold under YA publisher/marketing. I tend to think it's pretty solid all ages writing/storytelling though. Wee Free Men has probably the least overlap with other books/subseries in the discworld, so it is a great place to start. It takes place in a very small rural community, and the only crossover character are the witches, somewhat briefly, whose subseries of books starts with Equal Rites. However, all of the discworld books expect the very first two (Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic, which are a single story together) can be picked up on their own for a satisfying story. What you get by reading in order is much more of the character & relationship progression, than needing to read in order to understand. Personally, I fully think the right way to read discworld for a start is just to pick up a book whenever you run into one, in any order 😁
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Ahh I love the Tiffany Aching series so much. I live quite near the chalk horse that inspired the one in the series, so these books really feel like home to me. I’m looking forward to reaching them in my full Discworld reread too.
That is so neat! I hadn't even realized the place had a real inspiration other than very generally, I just lookes up the chalk horse and that is super cool! Gives me a new perspective. I think Terry did a great job of building that feeling of these places being home, even for those of us who have never been.
The Wee Free Men are the best. I hope you enjoy Elena Knows! I thought it was super good.
...and here we are a couple weeks later, just getting to this, and Elena Knows is still on the shelf. I am excited for it though, excellent to hear your praise for it. I saw she has another book coming/out, so I already need to catch up on her new releases if this one works for me.
I have Wee Free Men, but haven't read it quite yet. I'm a noob with discworld. I've read 5 and not in order! I have Repairman on hold... just waiting.
I'm excited about Katie's series too!
Glad the health issue wasn't major.
I was momentarily confused by repairman, but that is a brilliant autocorrect I'm absolutely sure Terry would have appreciated. I very strongly maintain that the preferred reading order the first time for anyone, rather than all the complex charts and subseries, is to simply pick up whatever book is most readily at hand 😄 I think you will be very charmed by Tiffany whenever you do get to Wee Free Men.
The Wee Free Men is great, I haven't read any other Tiffany Aching ones yet though.
Tiffany's story is a real journey, it can be so hard to go on with knowing the last is the very last, I had a hard time getting to it. I was recently thinking about if I had an over all favorite of the series, and I still don't know, but kept circling back to Shepherds Crown.
For Discworld, I've only read Going Postal but I'm hoping to read Hogfather around the holidays. Your editions are gorgeous. I hope you're feeling better.
I'm kind of an outlier in that I like Hogfather for haloween more than being for christmas, though the holiday in it is indeed a barely obscured version of christmas. It is one of the darkest of the series. The adaptation is also excellent! The guy who was the man with thistledown hair in the Jonathan Strange adaptation had earlier played a villain in this, and pulled from that role as his inspiration when doing the creepy fae in Strange.
Slowly but surely feeling better, thank you!
@@ReadBecca Was it made into a movie or miniseries?
@@toweringtbr I think both I mentioned are miniseries, but Hogfather is only 2 parts if I recall, so really more of a long movie IMO.
I'm impressed you are practicing Japanese! I keep meaning to pick up books in Spanish for the same reason.... maybe I'll get inspired.
Japanese has been very slow, it is so difficult! I've been working at it for nearly a year and a half daily, still not even close. I don't know if you have Libby (or if you do if the collection your library has is worthwhile), but one of my tricks has been using that, because there are lots of magazines in languages other than english available, so might be worth checking if available, then you have something you can leaf thru at will that shows up routinely or not if you don't have time and it isn't a big deal.
@@ReadBecca that is a fantastic idea, thanks!
The Wee Free Men sounds interesting...I have 2 questions: First, do you need to read at least some of the Discworld books first? Secondly, you said the heroine was young...is this directed towards a younger audience?
Yes, because of Tiffany Aching's age and the strong coming of age journey as a plot arc, some people think it is YA - though I don't think it has ever been specifically sold under YA publisher/marketing. I tend to think it's pretty solid all ages writing/storytelling though.
Wee Free Men has probably the least overlap with other books/subseries in the discworld, so it is a great place to start. It takes place in a very small rural community, and the only crossover character are the witches, somewhat briefly, whose subseries of books starts with Equal Rites. However, all of the discworld books expect the very first two (Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic, which are a single story together) can be picked up on their own for a satisfying story. What you get by reading in order is much more of the character & relationship progression, than needing to read in order to understand. Personally, I fully think the right way to read discworld for a start is just to pick up a book whenever you run into one, in any order 😁