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Making Money | Terry Pratchett

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Just a friendly reminder that we'll be reading #MakingMoney next! Dig out your books, put in your library holds, or place your orders! The next Discworld adventure continues on February 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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Going Postal | Terry Pratchett

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

Looking forward to our discussion next month!

Happy reading!

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BookmarkTavern Yay! One of my favorites! 3d

TheSpineView Just finished and loved it! Now I need to go back and read the one we are discussing this month. 3d

julesG @TheSpineView 🤣🤣🤣 same 🤦🏻‍♀️🫣 3d

julesG @BookmarkTavern mine, too 3d

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Monstrous Regiment (Revised) | Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs

Hello friends! Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a spoiler. Find the Monstrous Regiment 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 #OokBOokClub

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Monstrous Regiment | Terry Pratchett

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Welcome to the #OokBOokClub open discussion for #MonstrousRegiment 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

kwmg40 After working through the Rincewind books, many of which were heavily dominated by male characters, it was refreshing to see a more diverse and interesting cast. I especially liked Igorina and Jackrum. I also liked how Pratchett poked fun at the conventions of warfare and at the propaganda that tends to surround wars. 4d

BookmarkTavern I think Maladict and Polly were my favorites. I‘ve always related to Polly a lot, being the caretaker so long it becomes habit. And I found myself paying a lot more attention to the politics and religious fanaticism of Borogovia. It feels a lot more relevant right now. 😅 4d

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julesG @BookmarkTavern it does feel very relevant right now. 3d

julesG Polly is my favourite, but Maladict and Igor sure are second. And Jackrum, of course. 3d

BookmarkTavern @julesG I really didn‘t like Jackrum the first time through. I thought they were abrasive and a bully. But, on reread, knowing what we know about the character, I appreciated them a lot more. (edited) 3d

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Les Miserables: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Victor Hugo

My book finally came in the mail! Starting this #chunkster for #READLESMIS I‘ve always wanted to read this, and there‘s no better way than with a #buddyread with fellow Littens! Hopefully I will catch up soon!
I‘m loving Monsignor Bienvenue. He is giving, kind, and insightful.

#chunksterchallenge2025 #ColossialChunkster
@aimiable
#AllergicToChunksters
@julieclair

#ReadLesMis
@TheBookHippie

julieclair Hooray! 🎉 4d

tpixie @julieclair yes!! And most people canceled at work today and so I brought my book!! Maybe if I‘m caught up enough I can get some reading in!! 💙🤍❤️🇫🇷 4d

TheBookHippie Yay!!!!!!! I love him as well! One of my favorite characters. 4d

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tpixie @TheBookHippie Yes, I think he will continue to be one of my favorites, even though I understand he‘s not in the whole book… 4d

dabbe Yay! Glad we're all in this together! #readlesmis 🖤🇫🇷🩶 4d

tpixie @dabbe yes! 👏🏻 4d

julieclair Well, I've succumbed and have joined the Les Mis madness! My book arrives on Friday. 🇫🇷 4d

tpixie @julieclair yay!!! Mine just arrived yesterday. 4d

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Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance | Bethany Morrow

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This book would be a good companion read with Why Are you So Sensitive by Billie Lee and Gina Torino.

#LiteraryCrew #buddyread

Librarybelle Yay!! 1w

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Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance | Bethany Morrow

Repost for @Librarybelle

#LiteraryCrew : We have two books this month!

We‘ll discuss Take the Mic on January 20th and Hester on January 31st.

Let me know if you would like to be added or removed from the tag list! #buddyread

Original post - https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2824253

Librarybelle Thanks for reposting! 1w

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Monday Or Tuesday | Virginia Woolf

Repost for @AllDebooks
#VirginiaBloomsberries January #buddyread

Monday or Tuesday is a short story collection published in 1921 by Hogarth Press. This link offers an analysis but also includes a link to a free copy of the ebook.
https://interestingliterature.com/2019/06/a-short-analysis-of-virginia-woolfs-mo....

All are welcome.

Original post - https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2824217

AllDebooks Thank you. HNY to the @LitsyEvents team 🍾 1w

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julieclair

Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy

The first book I‘m tackling this year for the #AllergicToChunksters challenge is Anna Karenina. I‘m reading it for the #KareninaWinter buddy read, hosted by @TheBookHippie and @Librarybelle . I started it in December, and am woefully behind, but loving it.

What will everyone else be starting on? Tagging those who expressed interest, but all are welcome! 😃

mcctrish, JenlovesJT47, Lizpixie, Born.A.Reader, mrp27, BookBelle84, MatchlessMarie, Booksblanketsandahotbeverage, Andrew65, Sace, TheBookgeekFrau, dabbe, Enchanted_Bibliophile, PuddleJumper, Meshell1313, willaful

Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I decided to try and tackle The Last Magician again 🙇‍♀️ I‘m challenging myself to at least a chapter a day (they‘re about 5 pages each). The characters have started growing on me and so far I‘m up to page 173 🎩 1w

mcctrish I read AK with a book club a long time ago and I only finished it because I got so sick I couldn‘t get out of bed 🤣🤣🤣 BUT I am glad I did. It turned out to be a book I had to finish to appreciate. It will be so good as a buddy read ❤️❤️❤️but once was enough 😉 1w

PuddleJumper It's going to be The Lost Hero or Scum Villain Self blah blah blah which are both over 500 pages I think 1w

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mcctrish Also I am undecided about my first chunkster, I‘m down an Elin Hilderbrand rabbit hole, soon finished, and then I will sort myself out 1w

JenlovesJT47 I started Les Misérables today ? 1w

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 Same! 🤩🥳🤗 1w

Librarybelle I‘m glad you‘re tackling Anna Karenina! @TheBookHippie is doing an amazing job hosting this one—I just told her I‘d read with her, and a #BuddyRead was born!! 😂 1w

JenlovesJT47 @dabbe yay! 🙌🏻 I admit I freaked out at first when my ereader said the first chapter had 105 pages 😆 but luckily they are broken up into smaller chunks within the chapter. 1w

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 I'm only reading like 3-5 pages a day and ignoring the chapters ... otherwise my brain will implode. 🤩🥳🤗 1w

julieclair @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I love your plan! 5 pages a day is so doable! 1w

TheBookHippie @dabbe you have a schedule yes? ♥️😘💙 1w

TheBookHippie @Librarybelle 😘 1w

julieclair @mcctrish That‘s quite a story! I hope I can finish it without resorting to your drastic measures! 😂 But that‘s an interesting comment about needing to finish to appreciate it. That‘s motivating. 👍 1w

julieclair @PuddleJumper No matter which one you choose, the other will be waiting in the wings! 😂 1w

julieclair @mcctrish No need to rush out of your rabbit hole. You can start in February… or March… 1w

julieclair @JenlovesJT47 and @dabbe Good for you for taking on Les Mis! I was tempted, but realized there was absolutely no way I could read it while also reading Anna Karenina. 🤯 1w

julieclair @Librarybelle Hope you didn‘t freak out when I mentioned you were cohosting AK! 😂 For some reason, I thought @TheBookHippie was hosting December, and you were hosting January. But I agree, she is doing a fabulous job (as always). 💙🩵💙 1w

JenlovesJT47 I meant to start AK last month but had too much going on. I‘m a month behind so I dunno about jumping in now, but I really want to read this. 1w

Librarybelle No worries, @julieclair ! 1w

Gissy I‘m not so afraid of chunksters because last year I read around 8 books with more than 500 pages but always is a commitment😳I will like to read Anna Karelian but I need first to order online my copy. Let‘s see if I can finish it. I am also very interested to read The Miserables and finish The Count of Monte Christo. I will read some books this month that have more than 400 pages but less than 500 pages which are still long books for me😳🥺 1w

Gissy I never know if a big book will be a torture or an adventure, all depends on its context. I finished one that I really suffered with it😖 1w

julieclair @JenlovesJT47 If you really want to read it, maybe you could put AK next in line for whenever you finish Les Mis. 1w

julieclair @Librarybelle 😘 1w

JenlovesJT47 I could but we‘re supposed to read one chapter a day of Les Mis for the whole year 😆 I might just start it in a few days after I clear out some other books on my currently reading shelf. I get stressed when I have too many going at once 😳 1w

JenlovesJT47 @Gissy I know what you mean. I routinely do a Harry Potter reread every year or two & I speed through those big books so fast! I‘m currently on the 4th Outlander book which has 1800 pages on my ereader (so like 900 pages in the physical copy of the book) & have been reading slowly since October. 🥵 1w

julieclair @Gissy Hooray for finishing 8 chunksters last year!! 🏆 My goal for this year is to read 3. 😎 I‘d like to read The Count of Monte Christo at some point, too. 1w

julieclair @JenlovesJT47 I forgot Les MIs was for the whole year! 🤪😂😂 1w

Cheryl_Russell_BookNotes Good challenge! I hope to join in once I get back to Ohio, where the majority of my books are. I have plenty to choose from! 🤣😬📚📚 (edited) 1w

MatchlessMarie I plan on starting with Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky. Two of my hopefuls for the year are from previously failed buddy reads (completely on my part 😂) I attempted Les Mis CAD in 2023 and a Count of Monte Cristo Buddy Read from circa 2018 or so 🫣 I would also like to get to House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. 1w

Andrew65 Last year I read 20 books over 500 pages, although a lot of these were in the first half of the year. Not sure which one I‘m starting with but these are the ones I‘m hoping to get to initially.

1. Natchez Burning - Greg Iles, 969 Pages
2. A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness, 704 Pages
3. The Scarlet Lion- Elizabeth Chadwick, 608 Pages
4. Knights of the Black and White - Jack Whyte, 576 Pages
5. Act of Oblivion - Robert Harris, 596 Pages 1w

willaful One of my roll 100 books is Book of Love (650pg) so I might go with that, but I have been reading an awful lot of fantasy lately so may instead go with Table for Two. It's not quite 500 pages but I'm counting any book that I find intimidating. :-) 1w

Andrew65 I‘ve succumbed and am starting the year long read of Les Miserables. 1w

TheBookgeekFrau I hope this is easier to follow than War and Peace was!! 🤞🏼🤞🏼 1w

dabbe @TheBookHippie I don't have one written out, but my book works out to about 4 pages per day. I just finished reading them! I'm going to put a post-it-note where I stop and every day count 4 pages. Do you think that'll work? 🤩😘💪🏻 1w

julieclair @Cheryl_Russell_BookNotes Glad you‘re joining us! Anytime you‘re ready to start is fine. This is a very low key challenge. 😀 1w

julieclair @MatchlessMarie I‘m a Count of Monte Cristo buddy read dropout, too! 😂 1w

dabbe I hope to read three, or should I say I PLAN to read 3! 😂 One: LES MIS. Two: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell (never read it!). Three: TOMBLAND (Shardlake reread). Am I too crazy? 😬 1w

dabbe @Andrew65 YAY! 🤩🤩🤩 1w

julieclair @Andrew65 That‘s a great list! 👍 And I‘m proud of you for joining the Les Mis buddy read. I‘m still a bit too allergic to tackle that one. 😂😂 1w

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau Me, too! Those Russian names! (and now the French ones!). Maybe I should create a sheet with American names, so instead of Monseigneur Myriel, I could call him Fred. 😂 1w

julieclair @TheBookgeekFrau If you tackled War and Peace, you can handle anything! 😘 1w

julieclair @willaful If you find it intimidating, it totally counts! 😎 1w

julieclair @dabbe You are not crazy. You have a PLAN! 😎😘 1w

julieclair @dabbe Isn‘t that what we did for Udolpho? 😂👍 Fred sounds good to me. 1w

dabbe @julieclair But sometimes “the best laid plans of mice and men“ ... 😂 1w

TheBookHippie @dabbe YES! 1w

TheBookgeekFrau @julieclair Lol you give me wayyyy too much credit--I read it for a class in high school and then again in college for Russian Lit. On my own I would've been so confused, it would've been a very quick DNF! 1w

TheBookgeekFrau @dabbe 😂😂 And all the damn nicknames they had for each other, too 🤦🏻‍♀️ 1w

julieclair @TheBookgeekFrau You get double credit if you read it twice! Regardless of the reason. 😘 1w

julieclair @dabbe Your PLAN is better than any made by mice… or men… 😉😂 1w

Cheryl_Russell_BookNotes @MatchlessMarie House of Leaves came to my mind as well! 🙂 1w

TheBookgeekFrau @julieclair 😂 Thank you! 1w

Cheryl_Russell_BookNotes I read AK in grad school. I ended up having to make a list of characters with arrows to show relationships. 🤪 1w

dabbe @julieclair 🤩😘🤗 1w

julieclair @Cheryl_Russell_BookNotes Do you still have it? You could sell it to the highest bidder! 😂😂 1w

Gissy @JenlovesJT47 I want to read Outlander😃when? I don‘t know but I really want it. 1w

Gissy @julieclair I will order the book this week because my wallet was stolen yesterday😠😫and I‘m in the process to replace the credit cards. Today I will go to the bank to obtain a provisional one but the one with the credit card (visa/MasterCard) logo I think takes like a week. I hate my bank since it takes so long to replace a card. Then I have to order the book and wait for the arrival. I want the vintage edition. ⬇️ 1w

Gissy @julieclair. (Cont.) I have a beautiful Spanish edition but I will like to read it in conjunction with the audiobook. But believe it or not, sometimes I can‘t follow some audiobooks in Spanish. Some versions are not easy to follow for me 🤷🏽‍♀️I have problems I know 🤣 1w

julieclair @Gissy Oh no! How frustrating and inconvenient. What a way to start the new year. I hope the replacement process goes as smoothly as possible. 💙 And I love your idea of reading in conjunction with listening. I often wish I had a physical book to refer to when listening to audiobooks. Sometimes I just want to flip back through the pages to check a name or scene, and that‘s almost impossible to do on audio. 1w

JenlovesJT47 @Gissy Outlander is so good! If you like that type of thing I‘d highly recommend the show ❤️❤️❤️ 1w

Gissy @JenlovesJT47 Let‘s see if I can read that first book to start the series. I have the first book in English but the whole series in Spanish 😳I was planning to start the series long time ago🙄Let‘s see… 1w

Gissy @julieclair Yesterday I obtained my new card and ordered already the book🙌I was surprised that they gave me a new card the same day. Ordering the book was like a therapeutic gift to compensate that bad experience😃See you soon in that long reading mourning😳☺️ 1w

julieclair @Gissy Oh good! I‘m so glad you got your new card so quickly! And isn‘t it amazing how comforting it can be to buy a book? 💙 1w

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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience | Lyndsey Stonebridge

#buddyread
Read at your own pace. Post ideas, thoughts, quotes as you read. Open discussion. Open to anyone! Use hashtags #HannahArendt #resistance #adventuresinphilosophy when you post.
If you want to be added or deleted from tag list, let me know.

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