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