The Tin Woodman of Oz | 
In September I caught up on ALL THE THINGS!!! Summer is my least favorite season. Everything happens then and it's not like I get the summer off from work. 😜 #bobwhitebuddies #beyondtheyellowbrickroad #kindredspiritsbuddyread #ohcanada #KLBR
so-soThe Tin Man remembers the girl he promised to marry & goes on a quest to find her. W/ the Scarecrow, a boy named Woot, & an enchanted Polychrome, they‘ll face many weird & wonderful things in Oz.
I love the buddy road trip & the friendship, but I forgot that this is the book that introduces the fact that nobody ever changes or dies in Oz. Babies stay babies, the old stay old, & your chopped up body parts remain alive independent of you.🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
pickSomebody points out to the Tin Man that he never reconnected with the girl whose love caused him to be chopped up and turned to tin. Time for an adventure! The usual random bizarre assortment of creatures and places await. I appreciated Baum explaining a bit of the history of Oz becoming a fairyland where no one dies, though as a mom I‘m horrified at the prospect of babies staying babies forever. Then again, if they can‘t die, maybe not so bad?
pick#2023Book19
I‘ve always been a sucker for a “buddy road trip” comedy, so I quite enjoyed this one. I also liked that it was set up to be a potential romance but then took a hard left turn away from that and was mostly about friendship.
pickOkay, get this:
Someone points out to the Tin Woodman that maybe he should check on that woman that he loved that was the slave of the witch that cursed his axe to chop him up and he‘s like “Sure, whatevs.” On his quest he meets a Tin Soldier who fell for the SAME WOMAN and who was chopped up by his own sword.
Long story short, they find her but she‘s ALREADY MARRIED TO A MAN MADE OF A COMPOSITE OF THEIR BODY PARTS HELD TOGETHER BY “MEAT GLUE”!
To get over a deep ravine, the Scarecrow allows the long-necked Hip-po-gy-raf to EAT THE STRAW OUT OF HIS BODY so that it will lift him and his friends across. He is essentially a sentient sack for awhile until they can refill him.
Have I mentioned that Oz is a weird place? #OzReread
Here‘s the Tin Woodman talking to his former head. Like the head when he was a meat person. Which is still fully sentient (and a little rude because he is not connected to a heart either) and sitting in a cupboard of Ku-Klip the tinsmith who built his tin body.
Oz is a weird place, man. #OzReread
When every book is so packed full of oddity it‘s hard to name a winner, but Book 12 is shaping up to be the weirdest Oz book yet.
You see the TW started out as a woodcutter who fell in love with the Wicked Witch of the East‘s servant girl. The WWotE enchanted his axe to chop off his body parts, so he replaced everything he lost with tin, finally replacing his head.
But the head was kept by the tinsmith in a cupboard and it still works!
