Toddler Tuesdays :: Baby books make me cry

I am not even joking.

We were given a copy of "I Love You Forever" when Sonny was born and I CAN NOT make it through even half way before turning into a blubbering mess.  WEEPING MESS.

Half way is generous actually.

The last few nights we've started a new bedtime thing where Sonny and I will sit in a big pile of pillows and sheepskins that I set up in front of his bookshelf as a cozy reading area.

I should say that I have set it up as a cozy reading area and that HE is more interested in throwing the books all over and then throwing his animals all over the pillows Fight to the Death style.

I'm working on the cozy nook part.

BUT LAST NIGHT!  We were laying in our cozy pile reading books and I asked him to pick out one last one and OF COURSE he grabs this one.
"Berk n Force Mama.  Berk N Force"

I'm all Whaat??  OH!  BACK AND FORTH... as in "she rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth..."  SOB SOB SOB!


I made it until the boy is a teenager before the waterworks started.
Sonny actually looked over at me like "what is GOING ON with you tonight??"

It was amazing.

Fionavar

I first read this book when I was 16 years old.  I worked at The Mall (back when it was called Canwest... if you grew up in Langford you know what I'm talking about) 
I will never refer to it as West Shore Town Center!  NEVER!

Ahem, anyway.
I worked at the Mall and there was this really cool older girl who worked at the book store and basically  shaped my taste in books by recommending practically Every Single Book I have EVER loved.  (I exaggerate, but not much)
I discovered Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Laurell K Hamilton and Guy Gavriel Kay through her suggestions.
There are more, because I was basically DEVOURING books then, easily finishing a book or two a week.

And Fionavar, oh Fionavar, How I love you!  I have passed this book on to pretty much anyone who asks me about finding a new book to read.

And I have managed a coup!  My bookclub is now reading it as our summer book!
YES!
Yesyesyes!

So I just plowed through the first book (The Fionavar Tapestry is actually three books in one compendium, The Summer Tree, The Wandering Fire, and The Darkest Road) and have happily skipped into the second book, easily and (with some serious guilt) ignoring all of my extra child-ular activities, you know, anything that doesn't involve The Kid.  LIKE MY JOB. Jobs I should say.  As I have a couple.

I recognize that this is a bad idea, BUT I CAN'T STOP READING IT!

Yes I am forever pegged as a Sci-Fi/Fantasy nerd, andIdon'tcare!
I revel in it.

I would l.a.r.p.

Yeah I would.

Get a copy of this book and read it.
It's so wonderful.

My first Grown Up Novel

I read it when I was 11. I got it on the Ferry, on a whim, and it propelled me into a 7 or 8 year Dragon loving Science Fiction addicted odyssey which I will happily admit is ongoing.

Although I haven't read anything with Dragons in it for a while.

I remember too, that my childhood best friend Zoe read them with me at one point (I have read the series several times don't you know) and I got "The DragonLover's Guide to Pern" which I just unearthed from under my parent's house for my birthday when I was 13 or something and OH MY GOD we LOVED it! We made recipes out of it and everything.

Pretty awesome, I know.

But I started into DragonFlight last night after work and holy crappers I am as addicted now as I was then! I poured through 3/4 of it in one sitting, remembering the story as it unfolded and picking up on WHOLE new themes in it as an adult which I totally missed as a preteen. And I am sure that I cried in the same places as my 11 year old self too. It is so good.

So I am thinking that I will likely finish it tonight after a few solid hours in the studio, stay up too late to finish it and quite possibly have to reread the ENTIRE SERIES again.

S'wonderful.


The artwork kills me! I remember being totally blown away as a kid, wishing that I could Impress my own dragon.

Maybe I still do, whatever.