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Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!: The Play | Terry Pratchett

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

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

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

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BookmarkTavern Oh good! I haven‘t read this one in forever! 2d

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julesG

Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook | Terry Pratchett

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

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

Happy reading!

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

TheSpineView Found this one at the library! 2d

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julesG

Raising Steam: (Discworld novel 40) (Discworld Novels) | Pratchett, Terry

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Hello friends! Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a spoiler. Find the Raising Steam 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 #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #ReadAlong #BuddyRead

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julesG

Raising Steam | Terry Pratchett

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Welcome to the #OokBOokClub open discussion for #RaisingSteam feel free to discuss anything! Don't forget to tag each other in the comments so your friends can see your reply. Have fun!

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

TheSpineView I totally forgot to read this one.🤦‍♀️ I had planned to read in the first few days off April. 🐿🧠 3d

julesG @TheSpineView Don't worry. I'm the same. 🫣🫣 Glad I have the audiobook and only about 2 more hours to go. 3d

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BarbaraJean I actually finished this one on time! To refer back to my earlier comments on Terry's use of chapters: I was sad he reverted back to no chapters here! But I did really enjoy it, chapters or not. I loved seeing Moist discover new sides to himself, and the interplay with Adora was fantastic, even if there wasn't a whole lot of it. I also liked Dick Simnel and the way Harry and Moist kind of mentor him. And the reveal about Vetinari at the end! 3d

julesG @BarbaraJean Still wondering where I read about the chapters and what. My mind is a sponge when it comes to soaking up information, but a bank vault when I try to get the information out. I know that chapters were discussed pre writing the Tiffany Aching books. Guess I'll remember it when I least expect it and don't have anything with me to take notes. 😁 2d

BarbaraJean @julesG Haha--yeah, these days my recall of where I read something or how I know something is a bit diminished. 😆 2d

kwmg40 I really enjoyed this one, partly because I love travelling on trains and find the history of train travel interesting, and partly because of the subplot involving the dwarves, which provided a few surprises! 20h

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BookmarkTavern

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

My hyacinths are blooming! Which means spring is here!
#BookSpinBingo #BingoBoard

#BookSpin Chaos Choreography, #DoubleSpin Spindle‘s End

#Roll100 The Joy Luck Club, Aftertaste, Spindle‘s End

#OokBOokClub Guards! Guards!

#BobWhiteBuddies Mystery of the Blinking Eye

#BeyondTheYellowBrickRoad The Road to Oz

#QueerBC The Sparsholt Affair

#ThematicCozies Sent to Death

#AuldLangSpine Wonderland

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 4d

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BarbaraJean

Raising Steam | Terry Pratchett

“I know we have what might be called an unconventional marriage, what with our jobs and the pressure of work and so on, but I wouldn't be doing my wifely duty if I didn't ask you whether you have been firkydoodling with fast and loose women? No pressure. Answer in your own time.”

😂 “Firkydoodling” is hereby added to my vocabulary.

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julesG

julesG I love the "no pressure." part of this so much. I've only read this book so far. This time I'll listen to the audiobook and am looking forward to how the dialogue plays out. 5d

Ddzmini 🤣🤣🤣 a new word for us wifey to utilize 5d

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BookmarkTavern

Raising Steam | Terry Pratchett

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When one‘s mostly reformed con artist needs a new challenge, it is remarkable timing that the invention of the steam engine & pushback from a violent minority all happen at the same time.

I think this one, more than any other so far, has made me mourn the stories we could have gotten. Pratchett‘s depiction of a small, angry, vocal group driven by fear to upend all they don‘t understand, it hits harder this time around. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

BookmarkTavern #OokBOokClub @julesG 2w

julesG 🦧 I know what you mean. 2w

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Eric: Discworld: The Unseen University Collection | Terry Pratchett

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🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟This was my #DoubleSpin for March, and it's one of the best books I've read this year! I love the Discworld series, and Rincewind is one of my favorite characters. #OokBOokClub #2025OffMyShelf

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BarbaraJean

Going Postal | Terry Pratchett

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Still working my way through belated reviews…this goes back to early February for the #OokBOokClub.

I thoroughly enjoyed this, from the characters to the satire to the fact that it had CHAPTERS.* And the reappearance of characters from The Truth. And golems! There‘s so much more substance to the characters here (I‘m looking at you, Rincewind), which gave more depth to the story overall—and its satire of government was maybe a little too ⤵️

julesG

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …relatable right now, with quotes like:

“Steal five dollars and you‘re a common thief. Steal thousands and you‘re either the government or a hero.”
“Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.”
“What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.” ⤵️ 2w

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d):
*I love Terry Pratchett, but his aversion to chapters has been a mild annoyance thus far. The lack of chapters somehow has the opposite effect from what I assume Pratchett was aiming at—it‘s harder for me to sink into the book when I don‘t have clear units of content to anticipate. My brain wants those clear divisions.

Also also: this was my 2004 pick for the #192025 challenge with @librarybelle! (edited) 2w

Librarybelle Excellent!! 2w

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willaful I also noticed the wonderful CHAPTERS and was wondering if they're part of why this book is so popular! 2w

julesG I think Rob wrote something about the chapters in his biography of Terry. I'll check and come back (though later, just got out of bed it's 6am here)

Terry Pratchett: a Life with Footnotes: The Official Biography

julesG Wanted to get back to you and clean forgot. I looked through the book, but couldn't find the passage. Sorry. 4d

BarbaraJean @julesG Thanks for looking! I poked around online & found some Terry quotes from an interview: “life does not happen in regular chapters, nor do movies, and Homer did not write in chapters,“ and: “I'm blessed if I know what function they serve in books for adults.“ He has a point, but I have several answers on what function they serve in books for adults! With his use of chapters here and in Making Money, it seems he did find a function for them. 3d

julesG I was wondering, especially with the "synopsis" of each chapter, whether it had to do with his diagnosis. But since he didn't stick to it, I guess it's more of a "tried it, not my cup of tea" thing. 2d

BarbaraJean @julesG I wondered if he used chapters specifically in the Moist books, in order to poke fun at (Victorian?) novels where there's a little synopsis/preview at the beginning of each chapter. Or to work in the little quotes he uses. (Or both.) I think you're right, it was an experiment and he decided he wasn't into it! 2d

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BarbaraJean

BookSpinBingo | Untitled

#BookSpin list for April (even though I haven‘t even started my BookSpin or #DoubleSpin from March yet 😬)

Lots of challenge/buddy read picks on this list, with #192025, #ChristiesCapers, #OokBOokClub, and my own #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and #50x50. But it also stays pretty close to my physical TBR—which is ostensibly my goal with BookSpin! Looking forward to the numbers next week!

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! The Man in the Brown Suit is one of my favorite Christie books, even though (because??) it's completely ridiculous 😂 Is All Creatures Great and Small a buddy read? I love those books so much!! 2w

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks All Creatures is on my list for #192025, and so is The Man in the Brown Suit, for that matter (with a nice #ChristiesCapers overlap)! I've never read either and both feel like fun & cozy reads, which I need more and more these days. 2w

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