“I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”
– Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons, page 10
Version:
Hardcover, 212 pages
Published September 18th 1990 by HMH Books for Young Readers
Hahahahaha things have not even remotely settled down. I am the busiest bee. Which isn’t helped by the fact that I have low energy, but whatever. Other than being really busy and tired I think I’m doing quite well. The new place is wonderful and I’m doing better than I have in years.
I finished 6 books in July!
Check out my list of books and my fave/least fave things about them.
I feel like I didn’t do all that well this month, but I think it’s just because I’m reading so many books at one time and it makes me feel like I’m falling behind. And I think I’ll do better next month because I’ve been motivated to read recently.
I’ve been working on blogging more, and specifically on remembering to do bookstagrams. I think I’m still getting the hang of it. I love my little daily quote posts though, they make me happy. SO that’s something.
Is there anything y’all would like to see more of on the blog? Let me know!
Musing Mondays is a weekly meme, hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker, that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:
I’m currently reading…
Up next I think I’ll read…
I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
I can’t wait to get a copy of…
I wish I could read ____, but…
I blogged about ____ this past week…
THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: Have you ever had an argument over a book?
I’m currently reading… So many books lol
I’m still occasionally reading chapters of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, but not as much as I ought to be. Then there’s The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen which I started as part of my Dessen Reread then realized I needed a break from YA Contemporary. With my friend Ono I am reading They Never Came Back (Caroline B. Cooney) so that one will take a little while since we are going a few chapters at a time. There’s a similar situation with Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, since my mother wanted to read it with me and stopped me at chapter 3. Mainly I’m reading Searching for Dragons, the second novel in Patricia C. Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles. I’m loving it almost as much as the first one so I’ll probably move on to the third one soon.
Have you ever had an argument over a book?
I can’t really think of one? I mean, I have had a few men try to “teach” me about the classics and such and those conversations certainly had the antagonistic feeling of arguments, but they weren’t really. I guess the readers I know are pretty laid back.
The closest I’ve come to a real argument, I guess, was convincing my mother to let me read Harry Potter in middle school. She was afraid it would make me turn to witchcraft or something because some church ladies told her inaccurate things about the series.
The King and Queen did the best they could. They hired the most superior tutors and governesses to teach Cimorene all the things a princess ought to know — dancing, embroidery, drawing, and etiquette. There was a great deal of etiquette, from the proper way to curtsy before a visiting prince to how loudly it was permissible to scream when being carried off by a giant.
– Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons, page 2
Version:
Hardcover, 212 pages
Published September 18th 1990 by HMH Books for Young Readers
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?
First Lines:
The first snow of winter had begun whipping through Velaris an hour earlier.
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