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I Shall Wear Midnight
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Tiffany Aching Series: Book 4

I Shall Wear Midnight (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Terry Pratchett (Author) (edit contributors)

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A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head ...It's not easy being a witch, and it's certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old... read more

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  • “CRIVENS!”
    The Nac Mac Feegle
  • “In fact, to say that he had no trousers on just didn’t do the job. His lack of trousers filled the world.”
  • “No wonder he got on so well with the Nac Mac Feegles, who had made him an honorary member of the clan. He was their kind of cheese.”
  • “Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always very nearly drowning with mysterious omens. You just had to pick the one that was convenient.”
  • “If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.”
    Granny Weatherwax
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  • It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going. And if you don’t know where you’re going, you’re probably going wrong.
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  • Every step is a first step if it’s a step in the right direction.”
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  • The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.”
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  • Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.
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  • ‘The reward you get for digging holes is a bigger shovel’?”
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  • These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what we are.”
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  • Everybody was good at something. The only wicked thing was not finding out what it was in time.
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  • “If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.
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  • That was the thing about thoughts. They thought themselves, and then dropped into your head in the hope that you would think so too.
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  • We pride ourselves on making a good history of our lives, a good story to be told.
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Why was it, Tiffany Aching wondered, that people liked noise so much?

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapter One: A Fine Big Wee Laddie
Chapter Two: Rough Music
Chapter Three: Those Who Stir in Their Sleep
Chapter Four: The Real Shilling
Chapter Five: The Mother of Tongues
Chapter Six: The Coming of the Cunning Man
Chapter Seven: Songs in the Night
Chapter Eight: The King's Neck
Chapter Nine: The Duchess and the Cook
Chapter Ten: The Melting Girl
Chapter Eleven: The Bonfire of the Witches
Chapter Twelve: The Sin o' Sins
Chapter Thirteen: The Shaking of the Sheets
Chapter Fourteen: Burning the King
Chapter Fifteen: A Shadow and a Whisper
Epilogue: Midnight by Day

Author's Note
Appendix: A Feegle Glossary

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  • Bigjobs: Human beings.
  • Big Man: Chief of the clan (usually the husband of the kelda).
  • Blethers: Rubbish, nonsense.
  • Boggin': To be desperate, as in "I'm boggin' for a cup of tea."
  • Bunty: A weak person.
  • Carlin: Old woman.
  • Cludgie: The privy, or bathroom.
  • Crivens!: A general exclamation that can mean anything from "My goodness!" to "I've just lost my temper and there is going to be trouble."
  • Dree your/my/his/her weird: Facing the fate that is in store for you/me/him/her.
  • Een: Eyes.
  • Eldritch: Weird, strange; sometimes means oblong too, for some reason.
  • Fash: Worry, upset.
  • Geas: A very important obligation, backed up by tradition and magic. Not a bird.
  • Gonnagle: The bard of the clan, skilled in musical instruments, poems, stories, and songs.
  • Hag: A witch, of any age.
  • Hag o'hags: A very important witch.
  • Hagging/Haggling: Anything a witch does.
  • Hiddlins: Secrets
  • Kelda: The female head of the clan, and eventually the mother of most of it. Feegle babies are very small, and a kelda will have hundreds in her lifetime.
  • Lang syne: Long ago.
  • Last World: The Feegles believe that they are dead. This world is so nice, they argue, that they must have been really good in a past life and then died and ended up here. Appearing to die here means merely going back to the Last World, which they believe is rather dull.
  • Mudlin: Useless person.
  • Pished: I am assured that this means "tired."
  • Schemie: An unpleasant person.
  • Scuggan: A really unpleasant person.
  • Scunner: A generally unpleasant person.
  • Ships: Woolly things that eat grass and go baa. Easily confused with the other kind.
  • Spavie: See Mudlin.
  • Special Sheep Liniment: Probably moonshine whiskey, I am very sorry to say. No one knows what it'd do to sheep, but it is said that a drop of it is good for shepherds on a cold winter's night and for Feegles at any time at all. Do not try to make this at home.
  • Spog: A small leather bag at the front of a Feegle's kilt, which covers whatever he presumably thinks needs to be hidden and generally holds things like something he is halfway through eating, something he's found that now therefore belongs to him, and quite often -- because even a Feegle can catch a cold -- it might hold whatever he was using as a handkerchief, which might not necessarily be dead.
  • Steamie: Only found in the big Feegle mounds in the mountains, where there's enough water to allow regular bathing; it's a kind of sauna. Feegles on the Chalk tend to rely on the fact that you can only get so much dirt on you before it starts to fall off of its own accord.
  • Waily: A general cry of despair.
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Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 4 of 4 in Tiffany Aching Series. (standard series)

Preceded by Wintersmith.

This book is in 2013 Iowa High School Battle of the Books. (authoritative list)
This is book 38 of 54 in Discworld. (standard series)

Preceded by Unseen Academicals, and followed by Snuff.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Terry Pratchett (Author) - Currently my favorite author. I'm afraid that this may be one of his last books due to his early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: UK
Publication Date: September 2, 2010
ISBN: 0385611072
Page Count: 352

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  • The New Discworld Companion
  • The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch
  • The Discworld Mapp
  • The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld
  • The Folklore of Discworld

Books That Influenced This Book edit see section history

   
  • The Leaping Hare

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