Terry og Tiffany

Da har jeg fått lagd en bokvideo igjen, med temaet Terry Pratchett og serien om Tiffany Aching (Petronella Pine). Det var gøy, det tok som alltid litt tid, men. (Tips: det er gull verdt å lagre videofilene fra kameraet på harddisken før du begynner å sette dem inn i videoredigeringsprogrammet!)
Musikken fant jeg på Free Music Archive; det skotske temaet skjønner dere sikkert.

Den siste boka i serien, The Shepherd's Crown, ble visst utgitt uten at forfatteren ville det (fordi han ikke rakk å skrive en tilfredsstillende slutt). Det kan du lese mer om her.
Ellers er Wikipedia en fin plass å begynne hvis du vil lese deg opp på Pratchett og Discworld. (De norske artiklene er dessverre utdaterte, jeg fant for eksempel en faktafeil om en figur som faktisk dukker opp igjen. Neste prosjekt?)

Jeg kunne sagt mye mer, men håper at noe av magien jeg oppdaget skinner igjennom og gir dere lyst til å smake på bøkene. Her er det masse dyp humanisme, intelligent humor og huskbare karakterer.

Sitater 

... And they let you read too many books. It can't be good for a young brain, knowing words like paradigm and eschatological. It leads to behaviour such as using your own brother as monster bait.

 The Wee Free Men

The only hat worth wearing was the one you made for yourself, not one you bought, not one you were given. Your own hat, for your own head. Your own future, not someone else's.

A Hat Full of Sky

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense. 
Well, her story wasn't going to be the story about a little girl who was pushed around.

Wintersmith

These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what we are. 

I Shall Wear Midnight 

We pride ourselves  on making a good story of our lives, a good story to be told. 

I Shall Wear Midnight

There was no light, no point of reference except for the two tiny blue pinpricks sparkling in the eye sockets of Death himself. 
"Well, the journey was worth taking and I saw many wonderful things on the way, including you, my reliable friend. Shall we go now?
MADAM, WE'VE ALREADY GONE.

The Shepherd's Crown