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.

Terry Pratchett

My ongoing love for you knows no bounds.

I discovered the DiscWorld when I was 17, a friend who worked at the bookstore in the mall suggested the first novel, thinking that I would like it.

Boy was she right. I have read every book he's ever written, and when Geoff and I worked at Bolen Books, He came to do a reading and a signing and I got a hug. From. Terry. Pratchett.

It was awesome and weird. I have a picture of it tucked into my copy of Good Omens, which is boxed up somewhere under my parent's house.

I named my cat after a character that I love, still love, although now reading that book (Good Omens, which I started into again last night) is bittersweet, because I don't have that little bastard anymore. He definitely suited his name though, and I am hoping still does.

For Christmas Geoff gave me The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic graphic novels, and I finished them last night (hence the starting into Good Omens again)

I might have to read the whole series again now!