i can't stop a speeding bullet, especially when it hits the heart
Tuesday is always the worst, seriously. I feel like I can handle a Monday, but Tuesday is such a letdown I'd like to fill it with something nice. (As opposed to, you know, work.) Fortunately, I seem to have slept a hell of a lot last night, so I am in a good, wakeful mood this morning. Yesterday I was seriously groggy and felt like a member of the undead army stumbling in. Meanwhile, my safety inspection needs done sometime this month. Ugh, cars. So much trouble.
Meanwhile, Terry Pratchett. I love you, man, you know that, but I get the point. You're a writer. You're really, really showing your lit nerd roots with the 'words are alive and sacred' theme you keep repeating everywhere. It's either that or humans being amazing because we can forget things and get bored. You're like Miyazaki with environmentalism at this point.
That aside, I'm loving the Tiffany Aching series. I've read Wee Free Men and Hat Full of Sky and am starting on Wintersmith. Tiffany is, so far, my second favorite female character of his next to Granny Weatherwax, but she's climbing up there to become my first favorite. I can't begin to tell you how rare it is for me to enjoy this sort of 'next generation, child learning from the badasses of the first generation' character, but I just enjoy the hell out of this girl. Yes, I do feel like Pratchett hammers in her being a sensible person a little too much, but I grew up on Mercedes Lackey and that woman did the same thing times infinity with all her characters. I like the imagery, I like the writing, and I like how his children's books always struck me as a bit more serious and even a bit darker than the books he writes for adults.
Meanwhile, girl coming of age journey really IS relevant to my interests, and Pratchett pulls it off really well. Especially in Hat Full of Sky, which is all about the ladies and female networks and the female magical role. Yes, he does fall hard for the traditional magical types: men are book-learning, mathematical magic, women are intuitive magic, strongly connected to the earth...and yeah, I usually hate that. No matter how much I love this book, it's hard for me to get past that little twitch of annoyance. Of course, Pratchett made a female wizard in Equal Rites, which was all about girls taking on masculine roles, so at least he is aware of the trope.
Something I have noticed about the writing in these books is that it makes me sad. I've never actually felt sad about a Pratchett book before, but these books, while I wouldn't call them tearjerkers, definitely give me a sense of melancholy. It could be the connection Tiffany has with her dead grandmother that does it, or it could just be me being sensitive. Either way, love these books.
Meanwhile, Terry Pratchett. I love you, man, you know that, but I get the point. You're a writer. You're really, really showing your lit nerd roots with the 'words are alive and sacred' theme you keep repeating everywhere. It's either that or humans being amazing because we can forget things and get bored. You're like Miyazaki with environmentalism at this point.
That aside, I'm loving the Tiffany Aching series. I've read Wee Free Men and Hat Full of Sky and am starting on Wintersmith. Tiffany is, so far, my second favorite female character of his next to Granny Weatherwax, but she's climbing up there to become my first favorite. I can't begin to tell you how rare it is for me to enjoy this sort of 'next generation, child learning from the badasses of the first generation' character, but I just enjoy the hell out of this girl. Yes, I do feel like Pratchett hammers in her being a sensible person a little too much, but I grew up on Mercedes Lackey and that woman did the same thing times infinity with all her characters. I like the imagery, I like the writing, and I like how his children's books always struck me as a bit more serious and even a bit darker than the books he writes for adults.
Meanwhile, girl coming of age journey really IS relevant to my interests, and Pratchett pulls it off really well. Especially in Hat Full of Sky, which is all about the ladies and female networks and the female magical role. Yes, he does fall hard for the traditional magical types: men are book-learning, mathematical magic, women are intuitive magic, strongly connected to the earth...and yeah, I usually hate that. No matter how much I love this book, it's hard for me to get past that little twitch of annoyance. Of course, Pratchett made a female wizard in Equal Rites, which was all about girls taking on masculine roles, so at least he is aware of the trope.
Something I have noticed about the writing in these books is that it makes me sad. I've never actually felt sad about a Pratchett book before, but these books, while I wouldn't call them tearjerkers, definitely give me a sense of melancholy. It could be the connection Tiffany has with her dead grandmother that does it, or it could just be me being sensitive. Either way, love these books.