Welcome to Litsy!

Fairytales, Godmothering, and foreign travel - a fun mix, and rife with possibilities for classic Pratchett wit and nonsense! Nanny Ogg is fabulous, as always. Her postcards home are hilarious, as are her foreign language abilities. 😂

The true story of the pumpkin coach - the fairy godmother couldn‘t use her wand for anything else! The notion of happily ever after fairytales actually being neverending nightmares in which you can be killed for not be jolly enough is scary. Fortunately, the witches are on their way. 🤗

My best listening buddy, Xander.

Good evening Littens. I managed to get super lucky today and got a great deal that enabled me to replace my damaged second-hand Terry Pratchett collection. His books brought me to reading when I was a kid. I also managed to get some first edition Harry Potter books #collection #booksbooksbooks #discworld

“Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy,” said Granny, glaring at the sky. “But you can‘t make ‘em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin‘ their heads off as soon as they say ‘I do‘, yes? You can‘t make happiness…”

The witches get caught in the midst of fairytales and voodoo magic -- chaotic and fun!

Week 3 prompt (“witch“ in title) for #Screamathon

+5 for #Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick
+40 for each of #SpookOWeen #Screamathon #BookSpinBingo #wickedathon #OutstandingOctober @TheSpineView @4thhouseontheleft @TheAromaOfBooks @StayCurious @Andrew65
+15 for #ReadWithUs @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

For me, Sir Terry is at his best when he writes stories about stories, and here he has great fun riffing on fairy tales and ‘happy ever afters‘. As always, there‘s lots of characteristic Pratchett humour overlaying more serious questions - this time about autonomy and the right to make our own choices and define for ourselves what ‘happy ever after‘ means. #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

Forgot to take a picture before the book went back to the library, but I finished my #doublespin! I loved this book, and I can‘t wait for more of these wacky witches

"The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays."

“Stars don‘t #care what you wish, and magic don‘t make things better, and no one doesn‘t get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch . . . you got to learn three things. What‘s real, what‘s not real, and what‘s the difference.” #QuotsyJun21

Nanny Ogg is a (strangely) #maternal character.
#MayCharacters Day 23
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“Stories, great flapping ribbons of shaped space-time, have been blowing and uncoiling around the universe since the beginning of time. And they have evolved. The weakest have died and the strongest have survived and they have grown fat on the retelling . . . stories, twisting and blowing through the darkness. And their very existence overlays a faint but insistent pattern on the chaos that is history.” #twist #QuotsyNov20

Okay here are my choices #LMPBC #Round9

I‘ll tag them below too. I added my only Pratchett because everyone so far had 1 😂

3 should be fluffy/light. Not sure about the Pratchett. I also thought about recommending No Country for Old Gnomes (it‘s compared to Pratchett and it‘s funny), but it‘s the 2nd book and I don‘t know if you should read in order.

"So Tanja, now that you have just gotten SO many new books you've been anxiously waiting for, you are probably diving right in and reading them all?"
"Hahaa, of course not! I will reread Pratchett for the 100th time instead!"

???

Always such a delight. Rereading the Witches series of Discworld and looking forward to a couple of Tiffany books I haven‘t read yet

#basicwitchswap @sprainedbrain @Meaw_catlady
Coffee
Both
Probably Dark
Cats
Not sure but probably oracle - I'm quite new to this
Both, but leaning more towards story
Crystals
? I'll go South, only because that's where I live in the UK!

Honestly, all I have to say is "FIND THE REAL ONE" is incredible and "There are a million places like home, but you only live in one of them" made me cry. What a book.
#OokBOokClub

I have a trick with Discworld books (since I have so many that I still haven't read, and they don't have chapters) where I'll sticky-tab every ~35 pages where there's a paragraph break. Then when I get to that part, I'll move the tab to the "chapter break" in the next book. So when one book is finished, the next is ready to go!

Here it is @julesG Can you even imagine? 🙈🤣. Those should have been compiled into a book!

A fun story of my favorite ladies on the Disc, this time tracking a fairy godmother gone astray through some serious fairy tales, fractured one by one by the traveling Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg

I‘m a bit behind on this one for book club, but still a fun read
#PratchettPosse
#OokBOokClub

And one more #SeriesRead completed with @TheSpineView

I think I have said this before, but DAMN what an opening on this book! #OokBOokClub

Having properly goofed up last month's #OokBOokClub I am back-to-backing the next couple books. I am excited!

When you‘re reading your way through the Histories of Middle Earth with the #YearOfTolkien #LOTRHistory group and your other read for #PratchettPosse #OokBOokClub throws in a gollum reference.

Small book world! #BookSynchronicity

And honestly, the witches are smart.😉😂

True story!

#PratchettPosse
#OokBOokClub

😂 makes sense to me!
💙 it!

#PratchettPosse
#OokBOokClub

Can't beat a Pratchett!

I'm expecting fun, sarcasm, lots of hidden messages - and yes, that's what I got. I was laughing out loud in public and it made for Pratchett-esque moments. ;)

#OokbOokClub

#OokBOokClub @TricksyTails

Hello friends! Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a spoiler. Find #WitchesAbroad post & tap “show me“ on the spoiler tag to join in the discussion. Join in whenever you can! Today. Tomorrow. Next month! The post will always be up so just tag each other & we'll jump in to discuss with you. Feel free to chat about anything!

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead

There is nothing quite like roadtripping with the Discworld witches! They grab their brooms and head off for some alternate fairy godmothering (to STOP a gal marrying a prince). As expected, the witches are awkward tourists disrespecting foreign foods & massacring languages. Along the way they encounter a suspicious number of stories and ‘rural legends‘ being acted out. A very satisfying story, with some Granny Weatherwax backstory revealed.

In another episode of #JulesGsMaking: my wasp/insect/tick repellent balm and I cleaned the kitchen drawers - inside and outside.

Good thing I'm home alone at the moment, I laughed out loud several times.

#OokBOokClub #Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead

Today's adventure in my kitchen - I should make a # out if this, like @MrBook.

#JulesGsMaking Blueberry jam. After having blueberry pancakes for breakfast there were enough berries left for a jar of jam. Since I'm not a waster, I made jam.

Now, I'm making a wasp repellent balm: macadamia nut oil, beeswax, lavender and peppermint essential oils.

I love #audiobooks.

Book 61 of the year finished July 30, audio

Magrat is bequeathed a magic wand and is now a Fairy Godmother. She sets off to foreign lands with Granny and Nanny to stop the girl from marrying the prince.

I like the witches, particularly Nanny, but these aren't my favorite stories. I figure with over 30 books I'm allowed to not like some as much as the others. Still a solid Pick that I would reccomended others to read.

I couldn‘t handle reality anymore today, or reading anything serious....Discworld frippery was just what I needed, so I started YET ANOTHER book.

But dang, even my frippery seems a bit close to the mark today.

#PracthettPosse
#OokBOokClub

Dear Overdrive users who read on your phones,

Help! Is there a simple way to ‘go back‘ to the previous page you were looking at? For e.g., if you follow a footnote, how do you get back?

I can fudge it if I remember to add a bookmark before I click the link, but the chances of remembering every time are pretty remote...

Thanks in advance!

#OokBOokClub-ers, our Discworld adventure continues TODAY with #WitchesAbroad! The 12th Discworld novel.

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

Happy reading!

@TricksyTails

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead

#OokBOokClub

Just a friendly reminder that next month we'll be reading #WitchesAbroad! Dig our your books, put in your library holds, or place your orders! The next Discworld adventure continues on July 8th! Woohoo!

If anyone wants to be tagged/untagged for future posts please let me know! Happy to oblige!

@TricksyTails

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead

I liked it. I didn‘t think I would. But I really liked it.

I‘m about to start my first ever Terry Pratchett. I have never been much of a fan, but I‘m going in with an open mind. Only for you, my #LitsyAroundTheWorld ladies. You really are introducing me to new worlds.

Lovely idea @Meaw_catlady! #moonreflections

1) I'm a perfectionist and beat myself up for things I got "wrong", so I'm releasing those negative feelings. I'm inviting more self-love and patience with myself.
2) see above
3) @Moony @kaysworld1 @monalyisha

It'll be my daughter's first full moon ritual. She's giddy and has asked me about twenty-thousand times when the moon will be up.

“You can‘t go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it‘s just a cage.”

Somehow Sir Terry synthesizes folk tales, voodoo, European travel, fairy godmothers, and New Orleans into this tale of the witches trying to help Emberella not attend a ball, achieving both madcap hilarity and a thoughtful meditation on free will and the power of stories.

Just wow. #DiscRead

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#DiscRead

Terry Pratchett the wordsmith, folks. #DiscRead