A Stroke of the Pen

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I love a good book of short stories around the holidays. When everything is busy and there are voices everywhere they‘re great for dipping in and out of.

These stories were fun and whimsical, and in a happy accident some were holiday related. My favorite was How Good King Wenceslas Went Pop for the DJ‘s Feast of Stephen.

#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville

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Bookwormjillk

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories | Terry Pratchett

Holidays and long visits from in laws can be a bit overwhelming to me, but love it when random dogs crawl into my lap while I‘m reading and start to snore.

kspenmoll 💕 3w

AnnCrystal 💕💫🐕🐾💝. (edited) 3w

Ruthiella 🐶❤️🐶❤️🐶 3w

dabbe Same here! 🖤🐾🖤 3w

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Bookwormjillk

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories | Terry Pratchett

Taking a break from a busy day with this #AuthorAMonth Terry Pratchett. I love short stories this time of year.

Soubhiville

Soubhiville There are a couple good seasonal ones in there too! 1mo

TheBookHippie Jill the mailman just delivered our LMPBC book BACK to me 😂🫣😩 so I‘ll get it back out again 😂😂😂😂 I‘ve had 3 letters returned from others recently and I think they‘re seriously just messing with me. Plus I got 2 MARCH letters this week..WHAT?! 1mo

Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie what the heck? 😂😂😂 1mo

TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk I just bragged how mail was better…. 🫣 1mo

willaful @TheBookHippie What a drag! 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality

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Delightful. Never thought about how predisposed Pratchett's charmingly nonsensical moments were to short stories, but it's basically what would happen if he expanded any footnote you encounter in the Discworld books. A good chunk are Christmas themed, so I could see rereading them each year for the festive season. Mostly fantasy, arguably a couple sci fi. 1/3

Robotswithpersonality 2/3 Couldn't possibly pick favourites among them. Loved the background on how these tales were discovered, just adds to the overall magical, cozy vibes. 😊 7mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/3 ⚠️I'd like to think if Terry were writing The Quest for The Keys today rather than the early 80s, the Joke Monk order would have a different speech style, this one felt a little too close to racist caricature 🫤 7mo

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Robotswithpersonality

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For those times when no other explanation is handy, I think this is a very satisfactory alternative.👻

MariaW 🤣 7mo

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Robotswithpersonality

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🎅🏼😁

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bookishbitch

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories | Terry Pratchett

Today's book haul. Queen of Nothing was a gift from my daughter and is the 3rd of a series. I do already have the other two.

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wanderinglynn

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories | Terry Pratchett

I saw this at the first 2 indies I went to on IBD but didn‘t get it at either because I intended to pick it up at the 6th & last store. But I didn‘t make it to that 6th store.

And I didn‘t realize then that this is the special edition only offered by indie bookstores on Independent Bookstore Day because IBD always falls around Pratchett‘s birthday (4/28).

Luckily my intended 6th store still had copies & I picked it up today! 🎉 Huzzah! 🥳

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ju.ca.no

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories | Terry Pratchett

Put my birthday gift cards to good use😁😁

erzascarletbookgasm Happy birthday! 11mo

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julesG

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories | Terry Pratchett

#OokBOokClub

Hello friends! Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a spoiler. Find the #AStrokeOfThePen 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 #BuddyRead #EpicBuddyread

julesG @alisiakae @DrexEdit @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Tea_and_Starstuff @dariazeoli @Soubhiville @GingerAntics @rubyslippersreads @Karkar @kwmg40 @Marmie7 @Liatrek @khooliha @Read-y_Picker @TheSpineView @BookmarkTavern @Jennifer3 @Fortifiedbybooks @willaful 11mo

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julesG

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Welcome to the #OokBOokClub open discussion for #AStrokeOfThePen 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

julesG Which was your favourite story? 11mo

willaful I'm not sure; maybe the Scrooge sequel. I've seen turnarounds of the story before but never that all-too-likely version. 😂 And Father Christmas' new job was sweet. Pretty much all of them have made me chuckle. 11mo

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julesG @willaful The Scrooge sequel was great. My favourite story was the time travel story, The Fossil Beach. But it was also fun too see Pratchett's early writing that turned into parts of Discworld. Honestly made me want to start a re-read of the Discworld novels again. 11mo

willaful @julesG That one was cute. And the one with the stage sets was wild, though I wish it had a stronger ending. 11mo

BookmarkTavern I really loved the Pilgarlic Towers one with all the ghosts. It just tickled me. But I also loved the Fossil Beach one. His time travel stories are always some of my favorites. 11mo

Soubhiville @julesG I liked the fossil story too! I think my favorite was the gnome garden one. I loved that they took care of the gnome problem just to invite mermaids! @BookmarkTavern I liked the ghost story too! 11mo

Soubhiville I‘m really glad these were gathered and I got to read them, but I also wonder if that‘s what Terry would have wanted after reading his bio by Rob… it sounds like it may have been clear that he was happy these early stories had disappeared, and he didn‘t want anything additional printed after he was gone (though maybe that only applied to his unfinished stories.) 🤷‍♀️ 11mo

Soubhiville Of course I contributed by purchasing and reading the book. How could I not? 11mo

willaful @Soubhiville I had exactly the same thought! It felt like in the intros, both writers had qualms they did their best to squash, but I had some discomfort mixed with my enjoyment. 11mo

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BookmarkTavern

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Rediscovered short stories of Terry Pratchett when he was submitting stories under a pseudonym.

Delightful as always. Some old stories here, some new. Some surprising early bits and pieces of Discworld. And I wish I could have asked him when he would want to time travel to. Reading the Pilgarlic Towers story made me desperately want more ghost stories. And the story at the end about the discovery of The Quest would have tickled him. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

BookmarkTavern #OokBOokClub 12mo

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Soubhiville

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My favorite thing about this collection is catching glimpses of ideas in some of the stories that Terry later developed into pieces of Discworld.

I felt like the first few showed a clear influence by Dahl, but were kinder and funnier.

My favorite of the stories was the one about the gnomes in the rock garden, but all of them were fun. I‘m glad they were collected from those early newspapers so we can feel the joy in his writing once again. 🖤

Aimeesue Sir Terry 💙💙💙 12mo

AlaMich I‘ve been listening to this on and off lately. I think the stories are hit or miss, but all the narrators are great, so that makes up for it. (edited) 12mo

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 12mo

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julesG

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#OokBOokClub #EpicBuddyread

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

I enjoyed the stories although some of them were familiar.

Can highly recommend pairing the book with the #audiobook.

#52bookclub24 - Buddyread
#BookChain24 - Next book's title has same colour(-ish) as last book's title

julesG @BarbaraBB, @Kristy_K, @LaraReads, @KarenUK, @Hooked_on_books, @BarkingMadRead, @brittanyreads, @Magpiegem, @BookBelle84, @Larkken, @jenniferw88, @Deblovestoread, @MidnightBookGirl, @Librarybelle, @triplem80, @Tove_Reads, @Read4life, @Bluebird, @eeclayton, @hissingpotatoes, @Book_Lover95, @TheAromaofBooks, @Graciouswarriorprincess, @OriginalCyn620, @Crazeedi, @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick, @Branwen, @kwmg40, @Ruthiella 12mo

BookmarkTavern I can‘t wait to get to this one! 💙 12mo

Librarybelle Good choice! 12mo

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julesG

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories | Terry Pratchett

#OokBOokClub-ers, our #EpicBuddyread adventure slowly draws to a close. TODAY we'll start with the first but last book in our long #ReadAlong with the 'lost stories' collection #AStrokeOfThePen!

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

#Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #PratchettPosse #BuddyRead

Happy reading!

Soubhiville Next up on my TBR ❤️📚 12mo

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JoyBlue

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So much fun!

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BookmarkTavern

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories | Terry Pratchett

I‘m so excited for this collection of rediscovered stories! ❤️💚❤️

#SundayFunday I hope you‘re all having a good weekend, and don‘t forget to tag me in your posts!

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LitsyEvents

A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories | Terry Pratchett

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#OokBOokClub

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

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

original post:
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julesG Thank you!!! 13mo

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AllDebooks

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A perfect afternoon is an absolute delight while finalising plans for #Midwintersolace

GondorGirl I got my partner this one for Christmas... which, sadly, means I can't read it until he's done. 😅 14mo

AllDebooks @GondorGirl I'm sure he'll love it and read it quickly. It's very funny, especially the retelling of a Christmas Carol ( more so if you're British) 😅 14mo

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BookmarkTavern

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