July Book Club: Wee Free Men, winner of Insurgent AND another giveaway!

NaomiRuth has been asking us to read Terry Pratchett ever since she discovered him a few months ago, so this month we went with Wee Free Men.

Tiffany is an ordinary nine year old. She enjoys making cheeses in her family's dairy, likes walking by the river, loves to learn, and is annoyed by her little brother, Wentworth. So when monsters appear in the river and little blue men start popping up all over the place, stealing sheep and speaking in riddles, Tiffany isn't quite sure what to do. Except smack the monster with a frying pan and look for answers at the travelling school that has come to town. When Wentworth is kidnapped by the fey, it's up to Tiffany to rescue him. Fortunately she joins forces with the Nac Mac Feegles - the tiny blue kilt wearing, sword wielding, ale drinking warriors that have claimed her as their kelda. Journeying into Fairyland and through a web of nightmares and dreams Tiffany has to draw on every bit of ingenuity and knowledge she possesses to survive.

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What we thought about the book!

Eileen: I thoroughly enjoyed Wee Free Men. Although the book was published for children it has excellent storytelling that appeals to all ages. The unusual mixture of humor, fright, and satire will definitely keep me reading more Terry Pratchett.

Rebecca T: I really had fun reading this book. The Nac Mac Feegles are probably one of my new favorite fictional creatures. The dialect was fun and gave them real personality and I just loved all of the little details. Tiffany was developed well and behaved as a mature nine year old might, if you were a young witch thrown into the middle of Fairyland. I loved her hunger for words and knowledge and how do you not appreciate someone whose weapon of choice is a frying pan?!

And now I'm sure you are wondering who won the copy of Insurgent aren't you? After a bit of a delay (sorry about that!) the winner is

*drumroll please*

Martha! You'll be getting an e-mail from us soon or you can contact us at bwobny at gmail dot com so we can get your information and send you your book :D

AND we inadvertently ended up with an extra copy of Wee Free Men! So if you're curious about Terry Pratchett or the Nac Mac Feegles you could get a copy here! Winner will be announced with our next Book Club post.a Rafflecopter giveaway

The hardcover cover on the left
and the paperback cover
Aren't they gorgeous!

Next month we'll be reading Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me. Rebecca T and Rachelyons are SUPER excited to see what everyone else thinks about this book!

Terry Pratchett: One of Those Awesome British Writers

I don't know why, but I have a thing for male British writers. Maybe the accent comes over in the writing? Maybe it's the humor? Maybe it's the pure awesomeness of British people? Either way, Terry Pratchett has definitely become one of my favorites. I stumbled across his name through one of my blogger friends and he recommended Feet of Clay. I got it from the library and stared at it and hummed and hawed and poked it with my finger. I very rarely read adult books. I have numerous reasons for this. So. I wasn't really interested. But then I got sick and it was the only book within grabbing distance and I wasn't about to get up looking for anything, so I started reading it.

Terry Pratchett is hilarious. And for those of you, like me, don't like sexy-sexy times in books (or at least, some people don't like that all of the time) I was excited that it was clean. I could read it without freaking out and throwing the book across the room. And I laughed! And it took me awhile because I was sick and it was thick and I kept having to stop so I could moan and groan in agony, because that's what one does when one is sick, but I finished it and I wanted to read them ALL. And there's a whole lot to choose from. Next I read Eric, because it was short and looked like it was making fun of Faust, which is always exciting.

And it included time travel and bad magicians (bad meaning not very good at being a magician, not meaning necessarily evil EVIL!, though maybe yes to morally ambiguous) and they go to Hell, and Death is involved, and Death is a wonderful, wonderful character.

I'm reading the Color of Magic now, which is very interesting because it is the official first book in the Discworld series. I watched the super long movie based on it and its sequel (it had Sean Austin in it which was WEIRD), and that's always fun to see the differences therein.

So, if them being hilarious and British isn't enough for you, I have more reasons! You don't have to read them in order. You can just pick them up and read them willy nilly. You don't have to read them all. You can stop and start and go bananas crazy, or only read one and never again. ALSO. The world is on top of a turtle. How awesome is that? Completely awesome. You know you wish your world was on top of a turtle. Like this:

This wonderful woman created an Amigarumi Discworld.

It is beautiful.