Musical Memories

This morning on my ride to BART, the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" popped up on my iPod.  I immediately taken back to a party with friends before I was moving away from Kentucky.  We were making a mix tape for me of music that they felt I needed to know.

They gave me some Dire Straits because I had only "Brothers in Arms", and some Earth, Wind & Fire that I asked for, and then they said, "You have 'Sgt. Pepper's, but do you have 'Magical Mystery Tour'?"  I said I'd never heard of it, and so we listened to it while it copied.

Little other music transports me like that.  Phil Collins' "But Seriously..." takes me to the concert at Arco Arena while I was in college.  Occasionally, Dire Straits and the credits music from "Buckaroo Banzai" (and strangely enough "Rock Me Amadeus") will take me to driving the country roads in Maryland.  It happens other times too in small ways, but it's always a surprise.

Discworld - Seeing is Believing

The Last Hero is an amazing graphic novel that brings Rincewind, Leonard of Quirm and Captain Carrot together against Cohen and the Silver Horde.  It's illustrated but the amazing Paul Kidby.  Kidby is to the Discworld what Alex Ross is to comic books.

I remember getting to see Alex Ross on a panel at Wondercon once.  He mentioned how he wanted to recreate, in his style, the iconic Muhammad Ali vs. Superman book cover.  The other artists on the panel said that was huge undertaking, and Ross said it wasn't that big of a deal, you just draw it.  One of the other artists then said, "You're like Superman when someone asks him how he flies, and he says, 'You just jump into the air.'"

Every page has his incredible artwork that perfectly illustrates the characters and the Discworld.  And sometimes it is literally the Discworld that he is illustrating.  Sometimes it's artwork in the margins, sometimes it's a faint drawing behind the text, and occasionally it's an glorious two-page spread.

The story itself seems brief, but there are bleed-over references to artwork, movies,  and other things.  It is a seminal Discworld book.

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Recurring themes and Characters appearing in this book:

Albert

Ankh-Morpork

Berghodlt Stuttley “Bloody Stupid” Johnson

Bibulous, god of wine

Blind Io

Borogravia

Boy Willie

Butterflies (quantum)

Caleb the Ripper

Carrot Ironfoundersson, captain

Circumfence

Cohen the Barbarian

Death

Dried frog pills

Errol

Events in Guards Guards

Events in The Colour of Magic / The Light Fantastic

Fate

Fingers Mazda

Havelock Vetinari, patrician

Hughnon Ridcully, priest of Blind Io

Krull

Leonard of Quirm

Lord Downey, Assassins’ Guild

Mad Hamish

Mr. Boggis, Thieves’ Guild

Mr. Slant, Lawyers’ Guild

Mrs. Palm, Seamstresses’ Guild

Mustrum Ridcully, archchancellor UU

Nuggan

Offler, the crocodile-headed god

Old Vincent

Om

Omniscope

Parrot labeled "Dog" (picture)

Patina, goddess of wisdom

Ponder Stibbons

Rimfishers

Rincewind

Sam Vimes, commander, duke, knight

Sybil Ramkin-Vimes

The Agatean Empire

The Bursar

The Chair of Indefinite Studies

The Clacks System

The Counterweight Continent

The Dean

The Death of rats

The High-Energy Magic building

The Lady

The Lecturer in Recent Runes

The Librarian

The Luggage

The Million-to-One Chance

The Pointless Albatross

The Silver Horde

The Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons

Truckle the Uncivil

Unseen University

Discworld - Everybody Does It

The World of Poo is the second tie-in book for the Discworld.  It's another children's book, but this time one that is trying to teach more than just reading.

It rides the edge of a book that is set in a world that is setting itself in that same work being fictional in that fictional world.  It was fun to read, and brought out even more Pratchett's interest Victorian times.

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Recurring themes and characters appearing in this book:

Ankh-Morpork

Bergthodlt Stuttley “Bloody Stupid” Johnson

Cabbage

Carrot Ironfoundersson, captain

Cunning Artificers

Dimwell

Doughnut Jimmy

Events in Feet of Clay

Felicity Beedle

Gumption snuff

Harry King, knight

Havelock Vetinari, patrician

Hygiene

Igor

Interchangeable Emmas

Jolly Sailor Tobacco

Offler, the crocodile-headed god

Omnia

Sto Lat

Sybil Ramkin-Vimes

The Agatean Empire

The Ankh-Morpork Royal Opera House

The Brass Bridge

The College of Heralds

The Counterweight Continent

The Quantum Butterfly

The Street of Alchemists (guild)

The Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons

Uberwald

Unseen University

Young Sam Vimes

Discworld - A Primer of Animals and Citizens

Where's My Cow? is the first tie-in book from the Discworld.  It strikes me as similar to Goodnight, Opus as a book that tells the story of a children's book and a departure from the text.

Sure, it's a short book, but it's silly fun, and truly a children's book for an adult.

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Recurring characters and themes appearing in this book:

Coffin Henry

Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler

Detritus

Foul Ole Ron

Gaspode (pictured)

Havelock Vetinari, patrician

Sam Vimes, commander, duke, knight

Sybil Ramkin-Vimes

The Librarian

Where's My Cow?
Young Sam Vimes

Discworld - Just Taxes

"A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices"  is a simple continuation of the ongoing argument of Unseen University paying its taxes.  And ties with A.E. Pessimal first seen in Thud.

It's unremarkable, but a fun bit of wizard arguing.

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Recurring themes and characters appearing in this story:

A.E. Pessimal

Braseneck College

Havelock Vetinari, patrician

Mustrum, Ridcully, archchancellor UU

Ponder Stibbons

The Chair of Indefinite Studies

The Dean

The Lecturer in Recent Runes

The Librarian

The Senior Wrangler

Unseen University

Discworld - Watching Vacation

Snuff is another fine book of the Watch and Sam Vimes.  It's also another tightly written book.

It's the second book to have a tie-in book written for it: The World of Poo.  And no, I didn't forget an "h".

Snuff brings another sentient species into the Discworld in the form of goblins.  They are downtrodden and considered vermin, but we find out that there is more to these sword fodder creatures than people think.

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Recurring themes and characters appearing in this book:

A.E. Pessimal, inspector

All Jolson

Ankh-Morpork

Billy Slick
Blind Io

Burleigh & Stronginthearm

Carrot Ironfoundersson, captain

Cheery Littlebottom, sergeant

Detritus, sergeant

Diamond, king of trolls

Dr. Lawn

Drumknott, secretary

Events in Thud

Events in Unseen Academicals

Feeney Upshot, chief constable
Felicity Beedle
Fred Colon, sergeant

Goblin in the fairy book
Gumption snuff
Haddock, sergeant

Harry King, knight

Havelock Vetinari, patrician

Hourly bells

Hygiene

Igor

Igorina

Koom Valley

Lady Margolotta von Uberwald

Lancre

Lord Ronald Rust

Mightily Oats, reverend

Mr. Slant, Guild of Lawyers

Mr. Trooper

Mr. Trooper

Nac Mac Feegle

Nobby Nobbs, corporal/acting sergeant

Nutt, orc at UU

Octarine Grass Country

Otto Chriek

Ponder Stibbons

Purity, maid

Quirm College for Young Ladies

Rhys Ryhsson, low king of the dwarves

Sam Vimes, commander, duke, knight

Shine of the Rainbow
St. Ungulant's Fire

Stoneface Vimes

Sybil Ramkin-Vimes, duchess

Tears of the Mushroom
The Ankh-Morpork Royal Opera House

The Ankh-Morpork Times

The Clacks System

The Dark Clerks

The Duchess of Keepsake (ISWM)

The Goode Childe’s Book of Faerie Tales
The Marquis of Fantailer

The Summoning Dark

Unggue
Unseen University

Verity Pushpram

Wee Mad Arthur

Where's My Cow

William de Worde

Willikins

Young Sam Vimes

Zoons

Six Months in a Nimoy-less World

So, six months ago, Leonard Nimoy passed away.  Recently, William Shatner called for people to send selfies giving the "Live Long and Prosper" hand sign.

He put this together as a tribute:

Why did I ask for all those #LLAP selfies? For a @gishwhes task as a tribute to Leonard. Thank you! pic.twitter.com/3NQZ5siINe

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) August 9, 2015

I think it's a great way to say goodbye to a friend.

Discworld - Spirit of Wrath

If Unseen Academicals was the looking for the coat, I Shall Wear Midnight is the saying goodbye to people while looking for the host.  Characters are brought out that we may see for the last time, small themes are wrapped up and put away.  And questions are answered.

Again, my thought that Tiffany is what Esk might have been as a recurring character comes to mind.  Of course Esk showing up in this book shows how the path diverged, but again I get the sense of a path not taken and longed for.

But now, there comes Snuff which is the distraction on the way out the door that brings you back into the party...

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Recurring themes and characters appearing in this book

!!!!!

Angua von Uberwald, captain

Ankh-Morpork

Annagramma

Big Yan

Boffo

Brian, sergeant of the guard

Brutha

Carrot Ironfoundersson, captain

Chaffinch's Mythology

Daft Wullie

Death

Eskarina "Esk" Smith

Events in Equal Rites

Events in Hat Full of Sky

Events in Wee Free Men

Events in Wintersmith

Fred Colon, sargeant

Goblin in the fairy book
Granny Aching

Granny Weatherwax

Haddock, constable

Horace, the cheese

Hygiene

Jeannie, kelda

Lancre

Leticia, baroness

Long Tall Short Fat Sally
Lord Alfred Rust (ancestor of Ronald Rust)

Magrat Garlick, queen of Lancre

Mightily Oats, reverend

Miss Level

Miss Perspicia Tick

Miss Sacharissa Crisplock

Miss Treason

Mr. and Mrs. Aching

Mr. Trooper

Mrs. Eunice Proust
Mrs. Snapperly

Nac Mac Feegle

Nanny Ogg

Nobby Nobbs, corporal

Petulia Gristle

Preston

Rob Anybody

Roland

Sam Vimes, commander, duke, knight

Simon

Stoneface Vimes

The Ankh-Morpork Times

The Baron of the Chalk

The Duchess of Keepsake
The Goode Childe’s Book of Faerie Tales
The Lady Sybil Free Hospital

The Royal Ankh-Morpork Opera House

The Royal Art Museum of Ankh-Morpork

The Toad

The Unreal Estate

Tiffany Aching

Two Shirts
Unseen University

Verence II, king of Lancre

Wee Mad Arthur, constable

Wentworth

You, the cat

Discworld - Be a Sport

Unseen Academicals was a book that came out after a seeming drought of Discworld books.  Pratchett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease at this point, and we all were wondering how he would continue.  I think he ended up slowing down with the writing, but at the same time was trying to get everything in his head out onto paper that he could.

This was not yet the saying goodbye, but it was like the beginning of the looking for you coat at the end of the party.

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Recurring themes and characters appearing in this book:

“A lie can run around the world while the truth is getting its boots on.”

“The world is an oyster.”

Adrian Turnipseed, professor

Alphonse Nobbs, bledlow (no relation)

Angua von Uberwald, sergeant

Ankh-Morpork

Bergholdt Stutley “Bloody Stupid” Johnson

Bill Rincewind

Bishop Horn

Bluejohn, constable

Boffo

Bows & Ammo

Brazeneck University

Bugarup University

Burleigh & Stronginthearm

C.M.O.T. Dibbler

Cabbage

Death

Diamond, king of trolls

Dimwell

Dolly Sisters

Dr. (Mossy) Lawn

Dr. Hix (Hicks), Head of the Department of Post-Mortem Communications

Emberella

Events in Sourcery

Haddock, constable

Havelock Vetinari, patrician

Hex

Hwel, dwarf playwright

Igor

Lady Margolotta von Uberwald

Lancre

Lord Rust

Madame Sharn
Micro Mail

Mightily Oats, Reverend/Brother/Pastor 

Molly, maid

Moving Pictures

Mrs. Whitlow

Mustrum Ridcully, Archchancellor UU

Nobby Nobbs, corporal

Nutt

Ponder Stibbons

Professor Earwig (retired and married...)

Queen Ynci

Rhys Rhysson, low king of the dwarves

Rincewind

Shatta
Sto Lat

The Ankh-Morpork Royal Art Museum

The Ankh-Morpork Royal Bank and Mint

The Ankh-Morpork Royal Post Office

The Ankh-Morpork Times

The Assassins’ Guild

The Beggars' Guild

The Bursar

The Cabinet of Curiosity

The Chair of Indefinite Studies

The Clacks System

The Dean/Archchancellor Brazeneck University

The Evil Empire

The Fools’ Guild

The High Energy Magic Building

The Koom Valley Accord

The Lady Sybil Free Hospital

The Lecturer of Recent Runes

The Librarian

The Luggage

The Postmaster (Most von Lipwig)

The Quirm College for Young Ladies

The Royal Opera House

The Senior Wrangler

The Squid in the hall

The Thieves' Guild

The Uberwald League of Temperance

The Undertaking

Thud

Uberwald

Unseen University

Verity Pushpram

William de Worde

Winkle's Old Peculiar

Discworld - All the Money That's Fit to Print

Making Money, a direct sequel to Going Postal, has a lot of things happening in the background.  And looking forward to the next, and last, Mosit von Lipwig book titles Raising Steam, I notice that all three books titles have the same grammatical structure: verb ending in "-ing" followed by a noun.

But this book is lots of fun with another plot to displace/replace Vetinari as the Patrician.  And some of the best lines go to him as well.  My favorite is one from near the end of the book: "Mr. Lipwig, do I need to wear a button that says TYRANT?

It's also another book that visits or mentions a lot of past characters.

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Recurring themes and characters appearing in this book:

"A Fresh egg" (The Rite of Ashk-Ente)

Alberto Malich

Angua von Uberwald, sergeant

Ankh-Morpork

Anoia, goddess of cutlery and things stuck in drawers

Berenice Houser, priestess of Anoia

Black Ribboner; Uberwald League of temperance
Boffo Novelty and Joke Shop

Carrot Ironfoundersson, captain

Cut-Me-Own-Throat “C.M.O.T”. (Claude Maximilian Overton Transpire) Dibbler

Dark clerks

Death

Detritus, sergeant

Dorfl, constable

Dr. Hicks, head of the Department of Post-Mortem Communications

Dr. Whiteface, Fool’s Guild

Drumknott, secretary

Elm Street

Events of Feet of Clay

Fred Colon, sergeant

Gladys, golem

Haddock, constable

Harry King

Havelock Vetinari, patrician

Hex

Igor

Jolly Sailor Tobacco

Koom Valley

Lancre

Lord Downey, Assassins’ Guild

Ludmilla Cake

Miss Adora Belle “Spike” Dearheart

Miss Macalariat

Miss Saccharissa Crisplock

Moist von Lipwig

Mr. Bent
Mr. Fusspot, dog, chairman

Mr. Slant, Lawyer’s Guild

Mr. Tiddles, cat

Mrs. Cake

Mustrum Ridcully, Archancellor Unseen University

Nobby Nobbs, corporal

Ordained donkey (Ossory's ass)

Otto Chriek

Ponder Stibbons

Professor Flead

Samuel Vimes, commander, knight, duke

Stanley Howler

Tacticus, general

Teemer & Spools

The Ankh-Morpork Royal Bank and Mint

The Ankh-Morpork Royal Post Office

The Ankh-Morpork Times

The Assassins’ Guild

The Beggars’ Guild

The Cabbage Stamp

The Cabinet of Curiosity

The Campaign for Equal Heights

The Chair of Indefinite Studies

The Dark Clerks

The Dark Empire

The Department of Post-Mortem Communications

The Fools Guild

The Golem Trust

The Librarian

The Low King, Ryhs Ryhsson

The Merchants’ Guild

The Orthodox Potato Church

The Pink Pussycat Club
The Squid in the hall

The Undertaking

Tolliver Groat, assistant postmaster

Uberwald

Unseen Unveristy

Vetinari's aunt

William de Worde

Wuffles, dog (deceased)

Discworld - Boffo

This time reading through Wintersmith, I began to wonder if this had been part of Terry Pratchett's plan all along: to have a female character growing up through his books.  In Equal Rites, we meet Eskarina Smith as an eight-year-old, and Tiffany is nine in Wee Free Men.  Now I don't know if he had these stories in his head, but Tiffany certainly follows a path much like Esk might have if Pratchett had followed her as much as he does Rincewind and Vimes.

Tiffany is shaping up to be very powerful.  She has fought the Queen of the Fairies (WFM), traveled beyond the door of death (HFoS), and now has learned to be a fulcrum in the transfer of heat and will learn to do something similar with pain.  The only thing she hasn't learned so far to put her closer to Granny Weatherwax's true heir is learning borrowing.

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Recurring themes and characters appearing in this book:

Ankh-Morpork

Annagramma Hawkin

Anoia, goddess cutlery and things stuck in drawer

Awfully Wee Billy Big Chin

Baron of the Chalk

Big Yan

Boffo

Callus Tacticus, general

Chaffinch's Mythology
Daft Willie

Death

Dimity Hubbub

Eldritch means Oblong

Events from A Hat Full of Sky

Events from Wee Free Men

Gertrude Tiring

Granny Aching

Granny Weatherwax

Greebo

Hamish

Horace, the cheese
Jeannie, kelda

Lancre

Lucy Warbeck

Lulu Darling

Miss Eumenides Treason

Miss Level

Miss Perspicacia Tick

Morris Dancers

Mr. Joe and Mrs. Aching

Mrs. Lettice Earwig

Mrs. Snapperly
Nanny Gytha Ogg

Old Mother Blackcap

Old Mother Dismass

Petulia Gristle

Rob Anybody

Roland de Chumsfanleigh

Sensibility Bustle, wizard

Sergeant Roberts (with Kevin, Nigel, and Trevor)

Shawn Ogg

The Goode Childe’s Book of Faerie Tales
The Hiver

The Nac mac Feegle

The Quirm College for Young Ladies

Tiffany Aching

Tolliver Groat, assistant postmaster

Two Shirts
Unseen University

Wee Dangerous Spike

Wentworth Aching

Where’s My Cow?

You, the cat

Zakzak Stronginthearm

Discworld - Watching Koom Valley

There are two parts in Thud that really struck me emotionally.  They are moments that make me choke up like you read in 60s comic books.  The only other time I'm felt that way in a Pratchett book is at the end of Hogfather when Susan is protecting the forms of the Hogfather.  This time it is when Vimes is running to save Young Sam and when he is stumbling through the dark of the caves.

Pratchett really escalates his game in this book.  The action rolls forward again, but it's stronger and moves into being more Disc encompassing.

This is book 35 in the Discworld series, and I can see the end coming.  I still have The Last Hero, what could really be called the original Discworld graphic novel, to go.  But aside from that and The Shepherd's Crown, I have five books left in the series.

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Recurring characters and themes appearing in this book:

Angua von Uberwald, sergeant

Ankh-Morpork

Anoia, goddess of cutlery

Argent, grag

Bashfull Bashfullson, grag

Bergholldt Stutley “Bloody Stupid” Johnson

Bhrian Bloodaxe, First Low King of the Dwarves

Biers

Bluejohn, Constable

Boggis, Thieves’ Guild

Brick

Burleigh & Stronginthearm

Cabbage

Carrot Ironfoundersson, captain

Cheery Littlebottom, sergeant

Chrysoprase

Copperhead

Death

Detritus, Sergeant

Diamond, King of Trolls

Dis-organizer/Gooseberry

Doreen Winkins, countess

Dorfl, constable

Events of Guards! Guards!

Events of Jingo

Events of Night Watch

Events of The Fifth Elephant

Foul Ole Ron

Fred Colon, sergeant

Gimlet and his delicatessens

Grabpot Thundergust

Haddock, constable

Havelock Vetinari, Patrician

Igor

Koom Valley

Lancre

Llamedos

Mr. Pony

Mustrum Ridcully, Archchancellor UU

Nobby Nobbs, corporal

Otto Chriek

Rhys Rhysson, Low King of the Dwarves

Ruby

Sally von Humpeding, constable

Sam Vimes, Commander, Knight, Duke

Scumble

Stoneface Vimes

Sybil Ramkin-Vimes, Ducchess

Tak
The Ankh-Morpork Times

The Breccia

The Bucket
The Cabbage Stamp

The Clacks System

The Lady Sybil Free Hospital

The Librarian
The Pink Pussycat Club

The Pork Futures Warehouse

The Quirm College for Young Ladies

The Royal Art Museum

The Royal Post Office

The Silicon Anti-Defamation League

The Summoning Dark

The Uberwald League of Temperance

Uberwald

Unseen University

Verity Pushpram

Visit "washpot",constable

Where's my cow

Wilkins, butler

William de Worde

Young Sam Vimes

Just a Bit Too Late

Why, oh why, couldn't this have been found a month or so ago?

This would have been a perfect birthday present.  Not that I can think of any of my geologist friends whose wives would let them decorate their bed with this.  But it sure would make a nice blanket for sitting on the couch.

I like the labels, and the fossils and crystals.  But the best thing is the stick-figure trees.  My professors would always draw a line for the surface, and then draw a couple trees and maybe a house or cabin.  The department chair would always joke that this was required in any proper cross section drawing.

I may have to get one anyway.  It's just too cool.

Picky Picky

I'm fine.

No, really I'm fine.

But really, this study is interesting.

I just have to say two things:

1.  Introduce a strange food up to 52 times?  One a week for a year?  Every day for almost two months?  That's not getting used to something, that giving up out of boredom.  Except for hot dogs.

2.  And really, fifty-two times?  Who did this study, DC Comics?

Discworld - Glom of Nit

Going Postal introduces another recurring protagonist to the Discworld: Moist von Lipwig.

One of Moist's philosophies is always keep running because you never know who might be catching you up.  It's very fitting for this book, because it keeps running for its entire length.  It is a fast paced book that bring to mind a roller coaster in reverse.  Even after having head is many times, I found myself looking forward to lunch and time on the train to get back to my reading.

Again, Pratchett is detailing bits of his main city and calling back to the first time the post office was mentioned.  We learn where the missing letters from the motto went.  And we learn more about the working of the clacks system.

Next, is a return to the Watch with Thud.

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Recurring concepts and characters appearing in this book:

Adrora Belle "Spike/Killer" Dearheart

Angua, sergeant

Ankh-Morpork

Anoia, goddess things that stick in drawers

Berhodlt Stutley "Bloody Stupid" Johnson

Blind Io

Cabbage

Carrot Ironfoundersson, Captain

Clerk Brian

Dark Lord

Death

Dimwell

Dolly Sisters

Dr. Mossy Lawn

Drumknott, secretary

Extremelia Mume, priestess of Anoia

Fred Colon, sergeant

Gladys , golem

Goitre, Posthumus Professor UU

Harry King

Havelock Vetinari, Patrician

Hex

Hobson's Livery Stable

Igor

King of Lancre (Verence II)

Ladislav Pelc, Proefessor UU

Lady Margolotta von Uberwald

Lancre

Lela, volcano goddess

Lord Downey, Assassins’ Guild

Miss Macalariat

Moist von Lipwig
Mr. Pony

Mr. Slant, Guild of Lawyers

Mr. Tiddles, cat

Mr. Trooper, hangman

Mrs. Cake

Mustrum Ridcully, archchancellor UU

Offler, the Crocodile-Headed God

Om

Omnniscope
Otto Chriek

Ponder Stibbons

Quantum

Queen (Keli) of Sto Lat

Sacharissa Crisplock

Sam Vimes, knight, duke, commander

Stanley, assistant postman

Sto Lat

Teemer and Spools

The Ankh-Morpork Times

The Assassins’ Guild
The Cabbage Stamp

The Campaign for Equal Heights

The Chair of Indefinite Studies

The Clacks System

The Dark Clerks

The Golem Trust

The Guild of Merchants

The High-Energy Magic Building

The Lady Sybil Free Hospital

The Lecturer in Recent Runes

The Low King of the Dwarves (Rhys Rhysson)

The Mended Drum

The Opera House

The Royal Bank

The Royal Post Office

The Thieves' Guild

Thud, game

Tolliver Groat, junior/senior postman

Uberwald

Unseen University

Witch flying into clacks tower (Granny Weatherwax)

Discworld - The Witches' School

A Hat Full of Sky is a return to the world of Tiffany Aching.  I probably should have mentioned in my post about Wee Free Men, that there were a few pokes at J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.  There are a few in this book as well but not as much.

While I know Rowling had to be a Pratchett fan because of a few references that I caught in her series, she did once say that she did not realize that she was writing fantasy with the Harry Potter series.  In response, Pratchett said, "I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, hidden worlds... would have given her a clue?"

Looking back at this book, it could seem like a bridge story because of the new characters introduced that will be used again, including the Hiver entities.  But taken by itself, A Hat Full of Sky shows Tiffany's continued growth as a witch and begins her socialization in a world of her contemporaries.  It also shows again that she has amazing potential as a witch.

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Recurring characters and themes in this book:

"A Witch should never stand between two mirrors."

“The world is your... Shrimp”

Annagramma Hawkin

Awfully-Wee-Billy-Bigchin Nac Mac Feegle

Bells of St. Ungulant

Big Yan

Cabbage

Daft Wullie

Death

Dimity Hubbub

Dragons on the Moon

Events of Carpe Jugulum

Events of Maskerade

Events of Wee Free Men

Gertrude Tiring

Granny Aching

Granny Weatherwax

Hamish

Harietta Bilk

Jeannie, kelda

Lucy Warbeck

Lulu Darling

Miss Level

Miss Perspicacia Tick

Mrs. Earwig

Mrs. Snapperly
Nac Mac Feegle

Petulia Gristle

Ratbag, the cat

Rob Anybody

Roland, son of the Baron

The Baron

The Goode Childe’s Book of Faerie Tales
The Hiver

The Lancre Witch Trials

The Queen of the Fairies

The Yellow Toad

Tiffany Aching

Two Shirts
Unseen University

Wentworth Aching

Zakzak Stronginthearm