It seems that Cath found a book challenge that (for me) is a real no brainer! It’s called “Here be Dragons”….I read more books with Dragons in them than anything else!
Admittedly, this isn’t a challenge for me, but I will enter it anyway, since others will be reviewing other books with dragons, maybe I’ll hear of some that I didn’t know about. (like I need more for my wish list?… hell no! hahaha)
The Challenge is being held at Stray Talk. You can click on the link to see if you too would like to join this Challenge. It’s to read 3-5 books from January- June with dragons in them.
Since it is written that re-reads count, and because I didn’t start Dragonflight until after January 1st… I’m in! So here’s a few I expect to read during those months:
Dragonflight: Anne McCaffrey
Dragonquest: Anne McCaffrey
The White Dragon: Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsong: Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsinger: Anne McCaffrey
Dragondrums: Anne McCaffrey
and for good measure Dragonhaven: Robin McKinley
Yeah, yeah.. anyone who reads my blog knows I am reading those books! I told you, for me it was a no-brainer!! It’s kinda hard to resist a no-brainer, heh.
For the record, I will say it’s been many years since I re-read the Pern series, so I am already enjoying the first one as much as ever! Dragonflight is even keeping me up past my bedtime reading! Sheesh! You’d think I’d never read it before!
I wish I could remember when I first read these books. I still have the old paperback I bought.. it’s yellow and getting quite brittle (so I replaced it with a new tpb) . I looked on the inside to see if I could tell what year the old books was. First copywrite was 1968.. 16th printing was 1980..so I can’t really tell what year I bought it. (my guess would be about 1970. And the first person to say “I wasn’t born yet” I will search down and haunt you!) My first “replacement” was a Doubleday hardback that contained the first 3 novels. This is the 3rd or 4th time I’ve read the books.
Listen to this! : back then (wa-a-a-a-ay back) the paperback price was only $2.25 !! Oh man! Don’t we wish mass paperbacks were that price now?!!! This is what “cheap books” looked like:
Unfortunately, in the paperbacks, the pages are almost to color of the background in the photo!
Whelp, it’s time I get back to my reading!… hope everyone has a great Saturday!
