Litsy

1. I used to be able to bend over and touch my hands flat to the floor while keeping my legs straight. Those days are long gone!
2. Lessa has a special talent with dragons.
#two4tuesday

TheSpineView

TheSpineView I remember the Dragon Riders of Pern series. Great books. Thanks for playing! 6mo

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Chrissyreadit

Dragonsong | Anne McCaffrey

I saw this post from birdmossbox on IG and i really enjoyed it- so sharing.

Ruthiella Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again… and then the dragons arrived. 😱😂 🐉 6mo

CoffeeK8 I COULD HAVE BECOME a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites and then the dragons arrived. 6mo

Meshell1313 It was the worst of times it was the best of times and then the dragons arrived. 🤣🤣🤣 6mo

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Liz_M It was the day my grandmother exploded... And then the dragons arrived. 6mo

SconsinBookyBadger The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself, and then dragons arrived. 🔥🐉 6mo

SaunteringVaguelyDownwards My story begins on a sweltering August night, in a place I will never set eyes upon...and then the dragons arrived.

Before We Were Yours: A Novel

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julesG @SconsinBookyBadger 😂😂😂😂 why are there no dragons in this book? 🤔🤔 6mo

julesG @CoffeeK8 😂😂😂😂 6mo

SconsinBookyBadger @julesG now that would be an interesting turn of events in London Below 😆 6mo

Bookwomble Friday, 7 November. Concarneau is empty, and then the dragons arrived!

The Yellow Dog

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marleed I made my exit, and then the 🐉 arrived. 🤣🔥

Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel

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TieDyeDude The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. And then the dragons arrived! 6mo

DebinHawaii It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife…and then the dragons arrived. 🐉 💚 6mo

Chrissyreadit @Ruthiella @CoffeeK8 @Meshell1313 @Liz_M @SconsinBookyBadger @SaunteringVaguelyDownwards @Bookwomble @marleed @TieDyeDude @DebinHawaii Thank you all for participating- this was a fun thread to read and reread 🎉 6mo

marleed @Chrissyreadit I now can‘t stop this with every book I read. So thank you🤣🤣🤣🤣 6mo

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kwmg40

Dragonsong | Anne McCaffrey

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This book was left behind by one of my daughters when she moved out years ago, and it was the perfect choice for prompt 29 of #52bookclub24: “Published in a Year of the Dragon“. It was published in 1976 and, as the title suggests, it features dragons! I loved the story! Wish I had read it when I was young.

#FabulousFebruary @Andrew65
#gottacatchemall @PuddleJumper (prompt 57, Sirfetch'd: Book you keep meaning to read)

kwmg40 @Kristy_K, @LaraReads, @KarenUK, @Hooked_on_books, @BarkingMadRead, @Crazeedi, @brittanyreads, @Magpiegem, @BookBelle84, @Larkken, @jenniferw88, @julesG, @Deblovestoread, @MidnightBookGirl, @Librarybelle, @triplem80, @Tove_Reads, @Read4life, @Bluebird, @BarbaraBB, @eeclayton, @hissingpotatoes, @Book_Lover95, @TheAromaofBooks 8mo

willaful I loved this and the sequel when I was a teen.... 8mo

Librarybelle A great find for the Year of the Dragon! 8mo

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BarbaraBB A great find indeed! 8mo

TheAromaofBooks This is a great series. 8mo

kwmg40 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB I was very excited when I saw it was published in 1976! 8mo

kwmg40 @willaful @TheAromaofBooks I‘m definitely going to real more in this series! 8mo

TheAromaofBooks It's a little weird because there is the whole long Pern series, and within that series there are two trilogies, including this one. I liked these three books better when I read them within the context of the longer series, but there are like 20+ in the Pern series, so it's a serious commitment 😂 8mo

PuddleJumper Oh the nostalgia! I devoured them in my teenage years 8mo

Andrew65 Love the look of this. Well done 🎉🎉🎉 8mo

Larkken These were my favorites in the Pern series! (Also, possibly not a coincidence, my first McCaffreys) glad you enjoyed the first one. 8mo

kwmg40 @TheAromaofBooks @Larkken I'd read another book in the Pern series several years ago. I did like it, but for some reason, never got back to the series until now. Well, I'm convinced I need to read more from the series! 8mo

kwmg40 @PuddleJumper I'd read a lot of Heinlein in my teenage years and some of them make me cringe now when I reread them, though they're still enjoyable in many ways. I imagine the Pern series stands up better to the test of time! 8mo

kwmg40 @Andrew65 Thanks! 8mo

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thelorelei

Dragonflight | Anne McCaffrey

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The good: World Building and Plot! McCaffrey is a master.
The bad: Outdated understanding of consent. F'lar can also be very 1960s sometimes.
The GREAT: DRAGONS. They're the voices of reason and the emotional anchors that keep the humans from becoming at times irredeemable. Pernese dragons are the platonic ideal for human-dragon bonding and set the template for all the future variations thereof in fiction.
(see long winded review on LT)

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thelorelei

Dragonquest | Anne McCaffrey

Revisiting Pern via audiobook. Aside from some of the marked blind spots of 1960s second wave feminism, the world building and writerly craftmanship still hold up. I read the #Harperhall trilogy first, then #Dragonflight, #Dragonquest, and #TheWhiteDragon when I was still in elementary school and they got me into sci fi as a lifelong reader. Coming back decades later is eye opening, sometimes alarming, and yet still vindicating.

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ChelseaM6010

Dragonflight | Anne McCaffrey

#BookBinge
Day 10. Involves dragon
#InvolvesDragon

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs 💚🐉🧡 1y

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Lizpixie

Dragonsong | Anne McCaffrey

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Next in the Pern novels is one of my favourites from the series.It introduces the fire lizards, a miniature species of dragon from which the original colonists bio engineered the dragons. Menolly is the youngest daughter of a SeaHolder with very parochial views who refuses to let her make music. While running away she comes across a queen Fire lizard & helps her save her eggs from Thread, impressing 9 in the process. #BookspinBingo #SeriesLove2023

Andrew65, TheSpineView, TheAromaofBooks

Readergrrl I adored this whole series!!! 2y

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 2y

Larkken Menollys trilogy is my favorite from Pern lol 🥰 (edited) 2y

TheSpineView Fabulous series!👍 2y

ReadingOver50 Love this series!!! 2y

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Lizpixie

Dragonquest | Anne McCaffrey

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The 2nd Pern book starts where the 1st left us, but there‘s dissent brewing over the Oldtimer dragon riders that Lessa brought forward to help fight Thread. F‘lars left trying to fix the damage they cause but everyone‘s angry, distrustful & upset. I love this series & world, as you can see, I‘ve reread them many times over. Highly recommend. #BookspinBingo #SeriesLove2023 #Pop23

Andrew65, TheSpineView, TheAromaofBooks

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 Too many books to little time 😂 2y

TheSpineView Awesome 2y

TheAromaofBooks You're making me want to reread these, and I do NOT have time for that kind of commitment right now 😂 2y

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Lizpixie

Dragonflight | Anne McCaffrey

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2023 may be even worse than last year!Sorry I disappeared again, first Dad(who is finally out of hospital as of this weekend🙌)then my daughter(that‘s living here!)gets Covid & has to leave us looking after her 18month old coz his father is an asshole! It‘s been a tough week. But I have read! I finished this audiobook a few days ago & bubs finally at daycare so I can post it. I love Anne McCaffrey, she blends SciFi & fantasy like no one else.5⭐️👇

Andrew65, TheSpineView, TheAromaofBooks

Lizpixie Go read her books! The Pern ones, The Tower & the Hive ones, all of them! #BookspinBingo #SeriesLove2023 #AwesomeApril (edited) 2y

BarbaraBB I‘m sorry to hear you‘re having such a rough time. Wishing you strength and sending love 💕 2y

Lizpixie Oh god! I‘m sorry @BarbaraBB I haven‘t had a chance to send your book yet! I promise I‘ll get it to you by the end of this week. My profuse apologies lovely!🤦🏻‍♀️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 2y

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hannah-leeloo I understand these struggles too well. Hugs sweet 🫂 2y

TheSpineView Love this series! 2y

TheAromaofBooks I read through all the Pern books a few years ago and loved them. I read them in published order at the time, but made notes about the roughly chronological order I would love to read them in next time! Hope things around your house get back on track soon!! ❤ 2y

Larkken @TheAromaofBooks @Lizpixie how do you both feel about the Pern books the son wrote? I haven‘t gotten into them yet but always meant to do a reread and wasn‘t sure whether they should be included… also, lots of love lizpixie- that all sounds like a lot 💕 2y

Andrew65 Sending best wishes, hope you have managed to stay free of COvID yourself. ❤️ 2y

TheAromaofBooks @Larkken - I honestly wasn't a fan of Todd's books, and ended up stopping after I had read three of his and found them increasingly annoying haha I read Dragonsblood, Dragon's Fire, Dragon Harper, and half of Dragonheart. Those books all covered basically the same time period and just kind of kept telling the same story about this plague over and over from slightly different perspectives. I found the writing to be lazy, not consistent with other ⬇ 2y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) Pern lore, and he also took what had been adult scifi and suddenly made all the main characters 12-14yrs old instead, which got kind of weird and a little creepy when it still involved these characters having sex. I dunno, I know a lot of people really liked them, but I thought his quality of writing was really poor, especially compared to the amazing body of work Anne wrote about this world. 2y

Lizpixie @Larkken I agree with @TheAromaofBooks his writing has nothing on his mothers, which is unfortunate coz there‘s still so much you could tell about Pern. But I also feel that way about most of her books, especially the Tower & the Hive series. I can‘t say if it‘s because he truly is that bad a writer or I just miss Anne‘s way of writing. I also did NOT like Brandon Sandersons WOT books either prob for the same reason, though I enjoy HIS novels! 2y

Lizpixie @hannah-leeloo @Larkken @Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks thank you for your support! It‘s been nuts around here but thankfully, still Covid free🙌🙌 Daughter comes home tonight, she‘s much better so hubby can collapse, 18month olds are hard on us middle age people! Dad is also much better, my eldest daughter is going to build a granny flat at her place for him so he won‘t be alone anymore. He‘s hitting 2yrs since Mum died & he‘s not handling it well😢 2y

TheAromaofBooks Aww that's so hard about your dad!! When my grandma passed away it was so hard for my grandpa, and hard for us as he didn't want to leave the house where they had lived for decades (understandably), but we were concerned about him being alone. It's hard to find a new life balance. Hopefully it all works out for him to have his own space at your daughter's but still be a closer part of family life!! 2y

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Lizpixie

Dragonflight | Anne McCaffrey

Couldn‘t sleep(again!🥱)so I‘ve managed to listen to 20 chapters of the tagged book & 42 lines of this dragon scale chunky shawl. I love the color combo & I think that 2 cream stripes is enough to put on each end. Once I‘ve finished, washed it in wool softener & blocked it out, it‘ll be much bigger. Plenty big enough to keep me warm on cold winter nights sitting up reading(or #audioknitting more projects!) #AwesomeApril #readathon #LitsyCrafters

Andrew65

Tamra Beautiful!! 2y

Read4life That shawl is gorgeous!! 2y

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