Quote Originally Posted by charliepanayi View Post
Terry Pratchett. I don't think a celebrity death has upset me as much as his did.
Same.

I grew up reading Pratchett, read every Discworld book at least once, nearly all of them two or three times. I cried when I finished The Shepherd's Crown - the last book he wrote - for the first time.

Tiffany Aching was my Harry Potter. The first book, The Wee Free Men came out when I was eight or nine, and Tiffany was nine. She immediately caught my attention: here was a difficult child like me, who liked to ask questions and learned complicated words before learning how to pronounce them. She was confronting death in A Hat Full of Sky at about the same time my maternal Grandad died. She was beginning to discover her sexuality in Wintersmith at the same time I was. She was becoming an adult in I Shall Wear Midnight whilst I was having to start thinking hard about my future life choices for the first time. Finally, with The Shepherd's Crown, Tiffany came into her own whilst I came towards the end of University.