Book Meme

[rolanni]

Tagged by alfreda89



1. Total number of books I've owned:

I have owned many, many hands of books, Grasshopper.


2. Last book I bought:

Continuing the theme: Three Hands for Scorpio, Andre Norton


3. Last book I read:

Destroyer, CJ Cherryh


4. 5 books that mean a lot to me:

Um, ah?

The Witches of Karres, James H. Schmitz

Hellspark, Janet Kagan

The books in the Peter Wimsey series written by Dorothy L. Sayers, before her death and the subsequent taking of a co-author.

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

My Father's Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannett



5. Tag 5 people and have them fill this out in their LJs:

Well, I'll tag 5 people, but what they do is up to them...

jerrykaufman
kinzel
badgermirlacca
jhetley
medievalist

Comments

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

Is My Father's Dragon a book about a boy and some dragons with blue and yellow spots (or something like that)? And does it have some sequels? When I was very young, the library in the town where we lived had a series of books about a boy and some dragons that were just about my favorite books. We moved from there after I finished first grade and I've never found those books again.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

That's the one. Elmer Elevator is the name of "my father" - the boy hero of the stories. There were three altogether: My Father's Dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, and The Dragons of Blueland.

All three were collected into one volume a couple years ago: Three Tales of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, with illustrations and maps by Ruth Chrisman Gannett.