About this episode

The hosts discuss the third Tiffany Aching book, 'Wintersmith', exploring themes of witchcraft and teenage challenges.

The frost is on the pumpkin and the hay is in the barn, disceroonies! On today's episode of DISC COVERERS, we're covering WINTERSMITH, the third Tiffany Aching book from 2006. Tiff is coming into her own as a witch, but like any teenage work study program, she's dealing with her share of issues-- obtuse supervisors, difficult coworkers, absurd workloads, and, of course, boy problems. Will she be able to save the Chalk, and the WORLD, from being frozen by a snowman with boundary issues? Also the Nac Mac Feegles are here. For some reason. LET'S GO!!!! CURRENT RANKING: 1. Night Watch 2. Going Postal 3. Monstrous Regiment 4. Feet Of Clay 5. The Truth 6. Thud! 7. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents 8. Carpe Jugulum 9. The Fifth Elephant 10. Small Gods 11. Reaper Man 12. Men at Arms 13. Hogfather 14. Thief of Time 15. Wintersmith 16. A Hat Full Of Sky 17. The Wee Free Men 18. Lords and Ladies 19. Maskerade 20. Guards! Guards! 21. Mort 22. The Last Hero 23. Soul Music 24. The Last Continent 25. Witches Abroad 26. Wyrd Sisters 27. Moving Pictures 28. Equal Rites 29. Jingo 30. Pyramids 31. Sourcery 32. The Light Fantastic 33. The Colour Of Magic 34. Eric 35. Interesting Times…

People in this episode

Hosts: Iris Jay, Grace Lovelace, Balina Mahigan, Juniper Theory

Topics covered

• Tiffany Aching
• witchcraft
• coming of age
• fantasy literature
• Pratchett's Discworld

Keywords

• Wintersmith
• Tiffany Aching
• Discworld
• fantasy
• witchcraft
• Nac Mac Feegles
• coming of age

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: WINTERSMITH

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