In the first chapter of The Wee Free Men<\/i>, Tiffany Aching accidentally discovers her destiny. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
AHHHHH NEW DISCWORLD BOOK, EVERYONE. And thanks to Timothy, first of all, for lending me his copy of the illustrated version of The Wee Free Men<\/i>, since I do tend to enjoy artistic representations of books. (I even find that I consume more fanart than fanfiction these days.) Stephen Playing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s illustrations are a little different than Paul Kidby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, namely in that they feel a lot smoother in the line work. And the layout itself is really<\/i> fucking cool, so if you enjoy this book, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d recommend the illustrated version and I HAVE ONLY READ ONE CHAPTER OF IT.<\/p>\n
Anyway, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much here to talk about! I have one big question to start things off: Where the hell is this set<\/i>??? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recall mention of the Chalk in any previous Discworld <\/i>books. I know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been nearly four years since I started reading these books (how the fuck?!?!?!?), so I could have missed a passing reference to it. THIS HAS CERTAINLY HAPPENED BEFORE.<\/p>\n
But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another reason why I ask this question. Miss Tick comes from some place where treating witches poorly is the norm. Where the hell is that<\/i>? This passage in particular mystified me:<\/p>\n If one of the risks of your job is being thrown into a pond with your hands tied together, then the ability to swim thirty yards underwater, fully clothed, plus the ability to lurk under the weeks breathing air through a hollow reed, count as nothing if you aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t also amazingly<\/i> good with knots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n She presents this all so casually<\/i>, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. This has to be so common that it warrants this form of narration, so\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 how? This is certainly not how witches are treated\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, actually, sometimes they are<\/i>. Granny, Nanny, Agnes, and Magrat have all had to deal with poor treatment from other people. In general, though\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand especially in the Ramtops\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou respect witches. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most fear, of course, but I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see anyone throwing those witches into a pond, you know? Plus, there seem to be all these little hints that Miss Tick is from somewhere else. Where is<\/i> that place?<\/p>\n That being said, this is the Tiffany Aching show, and she absolutely SHINES in this first chapter. I have no idea if she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a recurring character (I think she is???), but I believe she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the first young woman to be a major narrator since Esk. (WHO I MISS.) (Does Susan count?) She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot younger than most characters who get page time in the series, but I hesitate to say that this makes this a young adult book. It might be! The narrative style still fits in well with the rest of the Discworld<\/i> books, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve still got Pratchett\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s playful tone.<\/p>\n BUT I AM JUST SO INTO TIFFANY\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ANGER. Look, I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m biased here, given that my very first book is also about being young and angry, but this was the first thing that I latched on to while reading The Wee Free Men<\/i>. Tiffany is warned about the underwater monster that made the Nac Mac Feagle abandon their hunt, and instead of just leaving it all behind, she plans<\/i>. SHE PLOTS. She goes home, pulls out a book to do RESEARCH, and then<\/p>\n she<\/p>\n uses<\/p>\n her<\/p>\n little<\/p>\n brother<\/p>\n as<\/p>\n bait.<\/p>\n LITERALLY. She uses her brother as bait and smashes the monster on its head with a FRYING PAN, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m assuming that was what she found in the book? Oh my god, I love every bit of this: that she was furious<\/i> that the monster would ruin her day; that she went home and did research on how to destroy it; THAT THIS IS WHAT MAKES HER PASS THE WITCH TEST. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 what a way to open a book, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. I CAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T WAIT.<\/p>\n https:\/\/youtu.be\/uQNUwGNDgbY<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – My YA contemporary debut, ANGER IS A GIFT<\/a>, is now available for pre-order!\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>If you’d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the first chapter of The Wee Free Men, Tiffany Aching accidentally discovers her destiny. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[463,248,543],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","tag-mark-reads-discworld","tag-terry-pratchett","tag-the-wee-free-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}