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39) "Carpe Jugulum" - Pratchett
One of my all-time favorite books. I had been rereading the witch books mainly to get to this one, because I was desirous of experiencing again the way he moved everyone up in the pecking order of Maid, Mother and Crone. And the development of Mightily Oats.
40) "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" - Baum
Can I just say that having Ozma have a magic picture in which she can see things happening, and Glinda have a magic book which which she can read about things happening... kind of makes them too powerful? I mean, he could say that Ozma doesn't happen to be looking at the right thing at the right time, or Glinda can't keep up with reading everything that happens. And then Glinda can always fix everything, anyway. The quest is going great and then the main character (Ojo) runs up against the Tin Woodman going "you're not ripping a wing off one of my butterflies, that's cruel!" (Ojo needs it for a magic potion to turn his uncle back from being a marble statue.) and instead of finding a way around that (why not find a butterfly that's just been killed by a spider?), Ozma just brings in Glinda to fix everything. Magic wand!
I don't think I'd read this one, before, not sure why not. I thought I had the whole set when I was a kid, but must have been missing a couple. The Shaggy Man is a really useful character, isn't he? He can just be tramping around for the heck of it, because that's what he likes to do, and find people. Probably because I missed this book before, I had not realized how useful he was.
One of my all-time favorite books. I had been rereading the witch books mainly to get to this one, because I was desirous of experiencing again the way he moved everyone up in the pecking order of Maid, Mother and Crone. And the development of Mightily Oats.
40) "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" - Baum
Can I just say that having Ozma have a magic picture in which she can see things happening, and Glinda have a magic book which which she can read about things happening... kind of makes them too powerful? I mean, he could say that Ozma doesn't happen to be looking at the right thing at the right time, or Glinda can't keep up with reading everything that happens. And then Glinda can always fix everything, anyway. The quest is going great and then the main character (Ojo) runs up against the Tin Woodman going "you're not ripping a wing off one of my butterflies, that's cruel!" (Ojo needs it for a magic potion to turn his uncle back from being a marble statue.) and instead of finding a way around that (why not find a butterfly that's just been killed by a spider?), Ozma just brings in Glinda to fix everything. Magic wand!
I don't think I'd read this one, before, not sure why not. I thought I had the whole set when I was a kid, but must have been missing a couple. The Shaggy Man is a really useful character, isn't he? He can just be tramping around for the heck of it, because that's what he likes to do, and find people. Probably because I missed this book before, I had not realized how useful he was.