{"id":288,"date":"2004-08-22T17:02:27","date_gmt":"2004-08-22T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=288"},"modified":"2004-08-22T17:02:27","modified_gmt":"2004-08-22T21:02:27","slug":"pratchett_terry_13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/08\/pratchett_terry_13\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratchett, Terry: (32) A Hat Full of Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My reaction on finishing Terry Pratchett’s A Hat Full of Sky<\/cite><\/strong> was two-part:<\/p>\n

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  1. Gosh, you’d think he’d have run out of things to say about the nature of witches, after six books about the Lancre witches and the prior nominally-YA book about Tiffany Aching, The Wee Free Men<\/cite><\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. And yet he doesn’t appear to have. That’s kind of impressive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Tiffany is now eleven and leaving home to start her formal education in witching. She knows sheep, and cheese, and the Chalk. She doesn’t know status-conscious girls, or how to make a shamble, or how to deal with having her body taken over when she casually left it empty for a moment—so she’d better learn fast.<\/p>\n

    Tiffany is<\/em> only eleven, which helps differentiate this book from prior Witches books: because of her youth and inexperience, she’s prone to mistakes that Granny Weatherwax just wouldn’t make. Tiffany may be Granny’s apparent successor, but she’s no Mary Sue and she has a long road ahead of her to get there.<\/p>\n

    (I continue to be curious if Pratchett has an end in mind for Granny. In the unlikely event I get to talk to him at Worldcon (I imagine he’ll be mobbed constantly), I may well ask.)<\/p>\n

    Oh, and the Nac Mac Feegle are back. Good stuff, nothing earth-shaking but solid and enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My reaction on finishing Terry Pratchett’s A Hat Full of Sky was two-part: Gosh, you’d think he’d have run out of things to say about the nature of witches, after six books about the Lancre witches and the prior nominally-YA book about Tiffany Aching, The Wee Free Men. And yet he doesn’t appear to have. … <\/p>\n

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