{"id":122,"date":"2015-12-22T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/?p=122"},"modified":"2015-12-22T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T22:22:18","slug":"currently-listening-to-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/2015\/12\/22\/currently-listening-to-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Currently listening to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you&#8217;ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren&#8217;t so lazy.\u201d &#8211; Miss Tick, in the late Sir Terry Pratchett&#8217;s <em>The Wee Free Men<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember how I discovered the Tiffany Aching series, imagined and penned by Terry Pratchett, a knighted genius who was taken from us far too soon (he suffered early onset Alzheimer&#8217;s disease). \u00a0Nevertheless, this series is so completely enchanting that I re-listen to them every other year or so. \u00a0Because a fifth book, The Shepherd&#8217;s Crown, was just published posthumously I decided to start from the beginning and will spend the winter break deeply submerged in &#8220;the chalk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/Wee-Free-Men.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-123\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/Wee-Free-Men.jpg\" alt=\"Wee Free Men\" width=\"60\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/Hat-Full-of-Sky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-124\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/Hat-Full-of-Sky.jpg\" alt=\"Hat Full of Sky\" width=\"58\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/I-shall-Wear-Midnight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-125\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/I-shall-Wear-Midnight.jpg\" alt=\"I shall Wear Midnight\" width=\"60\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/Wintersmith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-127\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/Wintersmith.jpg\" alt=\"Wintersmith\" width=\"62\" height=\"91\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-126\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/The-Shepherds-Crown.jpg\" alt=\"The Shepherd's Crown\" width=\"60\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first book features nine-year old Tiffany Aching, an introverted, smart, stubborn girl who wants to be a witch. \u00a0She will eventually enjoy the tutelage of Miss Tick (quoted above) and other more seasoned &#8220;hags&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn&#8217;t stop being magic just because you know how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the books are astonishing and lovely, they are made MAGICAL by the narration of Stephen Briggs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/Stephen-Briggs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-128\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/12\/Stephen-Briggs.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Briggs\" width=\"226\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think these stories should be heard, not read. \u00a0Do yourself a favor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you&#8217;ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren&#8217;t so lazy.\u201d &#8211; 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