# 1 Here Be Dragons Challenge
I know it's all about the dragons. But how can you stop thinking about the guards.
I know it's all about the dragons. But how can you stop thinking about the guards."You, er, want us to attack him?" said the guard miserably. Thick though the palace guard were, they were as aware as everyone else of the conventions, and when guards are summoned to deal with one man in overheated circumstances it's not a good time for them. The bugger's bound to be heroic, he was thinking. This guard was not looking forward to a future in which he was dead.Fantastic book, story, characters, lines, references. Utterly clever and witty. I want more. I'll get more.
He is an Argentinean cartoonist with a knack for capturing the little moments that make up life. Very powerful, in a heartwarming, enlightening fashion.
Pure genius.
Pure genius.
These are my favourite characters: Enriqueta, a little girl who loves reading and has a wonderful imagination, her cat, Fellini and her teddy bear called Madariaga. Those names make me love them even more.
The books on this side are outside my head ... and these ones are already inside.
On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony's incomplete grasp of the adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.
Someone said that you only read a book when you reread it. Calvino said that The classics are the books of which we usually hear people say, "I am rereading . . . " and never "I am reading . . . "
I say that this book can't be read just once.
You may be drawn by the love story and that's just fine. Maybe, it's the war description that calls your attention. Even the drama that unfolds one summer night after a little girl tries to comprehend the world beyond her little self. Each part of this book is equally compelling. The whole of it is mesmerizing. I get the feeling that it wants me to come back, to revisit it and discover what lies behind the descriptions, the character's thoughts, actions.
I will.
Someone said that you only read a book when you reread it. Calvino said that The classics are the books of which we usually hear people say, "I am rereading . . . " and never "I am reading . . . "
I say that this book can't be read just once.
You may be drawn by the love story and that's just fine. Maybe, it's the war description that calls your attention. Even the drama that unfolds one summer night after a little girl tries to comprehend the world beyond her little self. Each part of this book is equally compelling. The whole of it is mesmerizing. I get the feeling that it wants me to come back, to revisit it and discover what lies behind the descriptions, the character's thoughts, actions.
I will.
A Reading Challenge is such a wonderful idea! You get the chance of reading (which is the greatest reward you could possibly ask for) and of sharing your thoughts with so many people around the world. How could I miss this opportunity?
So here it goes!
The First in a Series Challenge: Hosted by Joy
Read 12 books that are the first in any series (new authors not required)
January thru December, 2008
Here's my list:
- Los días del venado by Liliana Bodoc
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Bad Beginning - A Series of Misfortunate Events
- Outlander - Outlander series
- The #1 Ladies Detective Agency
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The dark is rising by Susan Cooper
- Septimus Heap : Magyk by Angie Sage
- The Wizard of Oz
Here be Dragons Challenge: hosted by Love Read 3-5 books featuring dragons.
1st of January to 30th of June, 2008
Here's my list:
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Dragonhaven byRobin Mckinley
The Mythopoeic Award Winners Challenge:hosted by Lenneth
Choose 7 books from the list of Mythopoeic Award Winners.
between January 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2008.
Here's my list:
- Little, Big by John Crowley
- Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
- Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
- Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
- Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
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