A Hat Full of Sky

, #32

Mass Market Paperback, 352 pages

English language

Published June 6, 2005 by Corgi.

ISBN:
978-0-552-55264-6
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WE SEE YOU. NOW WE ARE YOU.

No real witch would casually step out of their body, leaving it empty.

Tiffany Aching does. And there’s something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can’t die.

To deal with it, Tiffany has to go to the very heart of what makes her a witch . . .

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Tiffany's still not fully my cup of tea

This is a good book, but it's certainly not my favourite Terry Pratchett book. Just like in the first Tiffany book, the Feegles are overused, to the point that they become annoying. Also, there is a very long (sometimes a tad boring) buildup, but the conclusion to the story seems really rushed. There are obvious flashes of brilliance and hints at what's to come, so I have high hopes for the next books in the Tiffany series, but this one is a bit wanting.

reviewed A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #32)

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It seems I simply can't pick up a Discworld book without finishing it within three days or less.

The Tiffany books were my introduction to Discworld, and they, and the witches in general, are really still my favorites. I don't think I've ever experienced that elusive sense of being represented in fiction as strongly as when I read about Tiffany Aching mispronouncing words because she'd only ever saw them written down. More than that, I admire her (and Mistress Weatherwax). She's responsible and practical and decisive, all virtues that, in my opinion, don't get enough attention in fiction. Probably because authors don't naturally tend to be the practical sort.

I'm continually amazed by how well Pratchett writes women, even the clique-y, bizarre internal politics of tween girl friendships ring true. (If you weren't a Petulia or Anagramma, you've met them.)
Warm, insightful, incredibly funny... It's a Pratchett-book, what more do …

Review of 'A Hat Full of Sky' on 'Goodreads'

A wonderful book, with equal parts heart and humor. While the supporting cast is fantastic, Tiffany's growth is "the soul and center". She's already something pretty special, and she's still becoming!

We are history! Everything we’ve ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are.



(Boy, I love the Nac Mac Feegles and Granny Weatherwax so much)

Review of 'A Hat Full of Sky' on 'Goodreads'

Sei nem por onde começar com esse livro. A princípio, minha intenção era dar umas 4 estrelas pra ele, enquanto estava embolada ali no meio da leitura cheio de Nac Mac Feegles fazendo gracinhas (não ligo muito pra esse aspecto da história, é a parte menos interessante pra mim, na verdade. Sinto que eles tinham muito mais impacto e razão de ser no primeiro livro, apesar de ainda terem um papel importantíssimo nesse aqui -- o que me faz pensar se não são usados apenas como um plot device [e não que isso diminua o valor da história]). Contudo, os capítulos finais desse livro são tão potentes que qualquer nebulosidade que me fez pensar em 4 estrelas foi completamente dissipada.

Este é um livro sobre uma Tiffany mais madura. Apesar do primeiro livro ser mais doloroso, pois lida com o luto de uma criança, esse lida com questões mais sérias …

Review of 'A Hat Full of Sky' on 'Goodreads'

I am not the target audience of this novel, as far as Terry Pratchett can have a target audience. My children are too young to read, and instead numerous picayune reasons combined to drive me to it:

- a series of long drives;
- a readily available audiobook;
- a dim memory that my early opinions of the earliest Discworld novels were less warm than my early memories of the later Discworld novels---and also less warm than my later memories of the earliest Discworld novels: I had read (via audiobook) The Wee Free Men before I joined Goodreads and had I been on it, I wouldn't have rated and reviewed it;
- a continued desire for more Discworld following the exhaustion of the grownup novels (reread too many times in too little time);
- a continued curiosity about what Terry Pratchett could say to young people: Discworld was there at, …

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