Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Author: Lee
First Lines Fridays: August 17, 2018
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
First Lines:
She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.
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She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her if she was whistling.
– Neil Gaiman, Coraline, page 108
Version:
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published July 1st 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers
For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure who she was. It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.
– Neil Gaiman, Coraline, page 67
Version:
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published July 1st 2002 by HarperCollins Publishers
Completed: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Dedication Spotlight: Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
First Lines Fridays: August 10, 2018
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
First Lines:
Shadow had done three years in prison. He was big enough, and looked don’t-fuck-with-me enough that his biggest problem was killing time.
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Thanking all her lucky stars individually and by name, Cimorene twisted and scrambled to her feet, sword ready.
– Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons, page 110
Version:
Hardcover, 212 pages
Published September 18th 1990 by HMH Books for Young Readers
Five of them lay on or sprawled over or curled around the various rocks and columns that filled the huge cave where Cimorene stood. Each of the males (there were three) had two short, stubby, sharp-looking horns on either side of their heads; the female dragon had three, one on each side and one in the center of her forehead. The last dragon was apparently still too young to have made up its mind which sex it wanted to be; it didn’t have any horns at all.
– Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons, pages 15-16
Version:
Hardcover, 212 pages
Published September 18th 1990 by HMH Books for Young Readers
July 2018 Reading Wrap-Up
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: eBook
Reading Dates: June 26 – July 1
Read Count: 2
Favorite Thing: Halley being like “she has my eyes” to that completely unrelated-to-her baby. Perfect.
Least Favorite Thing: Pushy boyfriend is pushy…
I’m actually starting to worry that I don’t like these books as much as I used to. Not that they aren’t the same quality, just that I think I’ve aged out of them.
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Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
Rating: ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: July 2 – 3
Read Count: 3
Favorite Thing: Norman’s art cave.
Least Favorite Thing: Mark, obviously.
Oh I’m so relieved that I still liked this book. After the first two of my Sarah Dessen reread that I didn’t like as much, I was worried I wouldn’t be able to enjoy any of them as much as I used to. I’d say I can see some differences by being older when I reread this one, but it was just as good as it used to be. Plus there was a whole nostalgia factor.
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Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
Rating: ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review: No
Format: eBook
Reading Dates: July 3 – 9
Read Count: 3
Favorite Thing: The fact that no one ever blames Caitlin or questions that she needs professional help after what happens to her.
Least Favorite Thing: I mean, I should probably say Rogerson, but honestly it’s the mean girls on the cheerleading squad…
So far so good on the Dessen Reread front! I am relieved to find I still like this one as well. Once again I found myself seeing things from a different perspective now that I’m older and have more life experience.
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: eBook
Reading Dates: July 9 – July 14
Read Count: 3
Favorite Thing: Remy’s constant planning and sorting things out was somehow fun to experience.
Least Favorite Thing: A weird amount of fat shaming in this book…
I think I like this one a little less than I used to. Not the story itself, that’s pretty much the same as I remember, but because of the constant fat shaming. The second anyone was the least bit bigger in this book there was some weird comment about it.
Locked in Time by Lois Duncan
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ – it was ok
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: July 23 – 28
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: There’s a little bit at the end that I like but it’s majorly spoilery…
Least Favorite Thing: Oblivious Protagonist Syndrome
My problem with this book wasn’t so much that it was bad, just that it was a little boring to me. I think it’s just not my style. And as with all Duncan’s books it’s a little slow till three quarters through then it all wraps up quite quickly.
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
(Enchanted Forest Chronicles, book 1)
Rating: ★★★★★ – loved it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: July 28 – 31
Read Count: 1
Favorite Thing: HOW CAN I PICK JUST ONE, no I’m lying it’s the female friendships in this book.
Least Favorite Thing: Um…. There is no least favorite thing. I loved this book.
Oh man guys I loved this book so much! Thank you, tumblr, for recommending this to me! I can’t wait to get the next book!
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