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#Pantone2022 update 😉 @Clwojick

I think that light slanting through Dodger‘s cover matched Perfectly Pale pretty well.

In Victorian England, a young man named Dodger makes his livelihood by trawling through the sewers for lost change & valuables. Everything changes for him when he rescues a young woman fleeing an abusive marriage.

This was a fascinating book & felt very similar to Nation, although dealing with class and ethics instead of colonialism. The world felt rich, the characters were interesting, & the social commentary was as on point as usual. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

I really enjoyed this mash up of Dickens‘s fictional Dodger character and the history of London with the real Charles Dickens & Mayhew authors and their studies of the London poor, the Sweeney Todd tale, and other memorable historical figures like Ada Lovelace and Babbage, etc making nod & wink appearances. A fun Pratchett adventure, with lots of great nods to real history.

Now is the time for #AudioSawing ! 😂

Need to trim a tree back, so it‘s time to pull out my Monty Don saw.

@julesg has posted the new book for the #OoakBOokclub a Terry Pratchet read along open to everyone.

#OokBOokClub-ers, our Discworld adventure continues TODAY with #Dodger!

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

Happy reading!

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Just a friendly reminder that next month we'll be reading #Dodger! Dig out your books, put in your library holds, or place your orders! The next (non-)Discworld adventure continues on August 8th! Woohoo!

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

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The spirit of the moment 🌲

Thanks to the #Scarathlon2020 I got to read 38 books this month. 8 of them were audio books, but only 5 were from my TBR. That's due to the challenge month - I tried to focus on books that would bring points to #TeamSlaughter

Now it's time for a new reading month! ❤

Another Non-Discworld book by Terry Pratchett. I did not get along all to well with Dodger, but it's nice how Pratchett shows us the life in London during the Victorian Era. And of course I liked Charlie 😉

“In that sense, all men are writers, journalists scribbling within their skulls the narrative of what they see and hear, notwithstanding that a man sitting opposite them might very well brew an entirely different view as to the nature of the occurrence.” #skull #QuotsyOct20

Only a few books planned to read in October. Most of my books this month are Ebooks, therefore the tiny pile 😅

I'm about to head to bed 😴 So I'm closing my #24b4Monday with 15.18 hours. 9 hours short, but still a good time for me. Also, I'm proud that this time I actually remembered stopping my reading time 😁😅

It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed it very much!

@Andrew65

This reimagining of the teenage Jack Dawkins/Artful Dodger as, for the most part, the hero (hero-adjacent?) includes characters Sweeney Todd, writer Charles Dickens, and politician Benjamin Disraeli.

It was an OK read. I didn't have any strong feelings about it one way or the other. The humor is its saving grace.

This is not a Discworld novel. This is a book about Victorian London & a tribute to Charles Dickens with a nod to the Baker Street Irregulars. Not being a traditional “Prachett” book as the setting, language, & lack of magic are not one would expect, I still found it charming & a fun contrast to his Discworld books. And this in despite that I loathe Dickens.

The narrator, Stephen Briggs, was fabulous.

Book 4 for #SuperSeptember 🎉

I'm on session 2 of listening to Dodger and I think my issues are these:
1) I don't really care about toshing and
2) the way people are always So Impressed with Dodger (the character) rubs me the wrong way. I get it! You expect nothing from the poor!

My Ipod dying and my desire to listen to more of the podcast Pratchat means I am currently exploring my ambivalence to Dodger. Thanks Libby, you lifesaver!

Needed a new audiobook and this sounded fun! Anyone read it? It‘s been a few months since I‘ve read some Pratchett and this one is not Discworld.

5🌟 So far, this is my favourite Terry Pratchett. I liked the science of Discworld, but this was more fun to read, especially because I read (or had read to me) this character in the original Dickens as a child. I think I quite like Pratchett‘s Dodger more than Dickens‘s. I loved that Dickens and Mayhew were characters in this story.

Love the mental images. Pratchett manages to take common sayings and turn them into something worth noticing.
#terrypratchett #dodger #language

Love Simplicity calling Dodger “hers.” It‘s so cute.
#dodger #terrypratchett #simplicity

Ah, the weird things boys think about. 🤣😂🤣
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#terrypratchett #dodger #boyproblems

In the book, unmentionables are everything between underwear and what‘s in your underwear.
At our house, unmentionables are dogs. We‘ve had dogs and cats, but more cats than dogs. It‘s become this thing that our cats think of dogs as “unmentionables” with the exception of K-9 units (officers, marines, seals, etc), fire dogs (firefighters), the queen‘s corgis, and the dogs on Pit Bulls and Parolees.
#weirdconnections #dodger #terrypratchett

Absolutely in love with this book. Mr. Charlie Dickens. Mr. Sweeny Todd. This is bloody brilliant. How have I never known about this book before now? I am in love. This could be my new favourite book.
#dodger #terrypratchett #charliedickens #sweenytodd #booklove

So many good quotables in this one.
#Dodger #terrypratchett #audiobook #quotables #quotes

Such a mental image. Pratchett paints a picture in a slightly different way than Gaiman, but equally as vivid.
#Dodger #terrypratchett #audiobook #neilgaiman

Perfection 🤣😂🤣
#dodger #terrypratchett #audiobook

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#dodger #terrypratchett #audiobook

Starting Terry Pratchett‘s Dodger tonight.
#terrypratchett #dodger #audiobook

"In which we meet our hero and the hero meets an orphan of the storm and comes face to face with Mister Charlie, a gentleman known as a but of a scribbler"

(Oh I'm a sucker for a good chapter opening)

It's currently 8:55 pm right now. I'm in bed, Pjs on, face washed, contacts out, I'm ready for reading time 🤗❤️📚

When your blanket matches your book LOL

My next read!

When you're buying part of your niece's 1st birthday gifts at your favorite bookstore. One for her, one for me... oh another for her, okay then, another for me 😏🤓😋#halfpricebooks #bestaunt

Late one from me, hence dark photo! It's 22:40 and I should have been in bed ages ago but Harry Potter was on the TV. Even though I have it on bluray...this is #backtoreading #shelfiesunday. These are my Pratchett and Graphic Novels shelves. Also introducing my Jester bear, Muse, and my little hedgehog Lori. Both artist bears, another obsession of mine. 🐻

Starting this and starting this puzzle. Party hard on a Saturday.

Pratchett never fails to disappoint. Always a laugh, many a commentary on the parallels between his world and ours, sarcasm aplenty and a good story to hang it all on!
#terrypratchett #dodger

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Bedroom door closed (husband doing bedtime duties), great book, and shopping for #SecretSantaGoesPostal ... Sorry, what was that? I couldn't hear you because I was introverting SO HARD.