In honor of BBAW, I decided to participate in the blogger interview swaps. So…without further ado I’d like to introduce you to Gina of Book Dragon’s Lair. Gina’s started book blogging this last year, loves a challenge, and can’t name just one favorite book.
And I love her tagline, “because a book is a treasure worth protecting.”
How’d you come up with the name Book Dragon’s Lair?
Well, there was this book…. Actually, that’s true, I read A Book Dragon by Donn Kushner. The dragon becomes smaller and smaller when he stops eating and ends up protecting a Book of Hours through the ages. When he ends up in modern day America he protects his friends and their stores (one is a bookstore) from an evil developer. Hence, “a book dragon, because books are a treasure worth protecting.” Maybe not to the extreme the little dragon went to but still.
The people. And then the challenges. If I hadn’t joined one challenge that led to others, I wouldn’t have met such wonderful people.
Oh, man, I must be old. I can remember High School but not before that. One memory is I had just bought two Dick Francis novels and started one before going to bed, you know, that just-a-couple-of-chapters thing. I finished it, checked the time (too late to sleep), and started in on the other. I ended up staying awake the whole night finishing both books and still made it to school the next day. um… still do that once in a while
Five books? Are you sure you don’t mean authors? 😉 I tend to think in “recent reads” rather then “of all time” so I’m always going “I love that book” when I hear about an old favorite. Let’s see….
First Test (and the series) by Tamora Pierce
Hazard by Jo Beverley
Fanuilh (and the series) by Daniel Hood
Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey
Whip Hand by Dick Francis
Sigh, just five? Are you sure? I’ve got a couple more…
What an Animal II. It has been fun picking out the books for it and I discovered a new author. Then again, there are a couple of romance challenges that were fun and the Christmas in July Challenge but that one I hosted so I don’t know if it counts, same with the Cat Sleuth Challenge, then there’s the Confuzzled Faerie Challenge, and the New to You Authors challenge, … Did you see how many challenges I joined? You want me to pick a favorite? I found a new one to join while looking up stuff for the interview!
They’re all hard. I tend to want to tell you about the whole book instead of just enough.
I went to a book signing for Stephanie Laurens, I think she’d be a fun dinner guest. I’d like to go to the home of Anne McCaffrey & visit. Oh, and Elizabeth Lowell and Debbie Macomber and…. Can I just have a party and invite them all? I could do an open house for all the authors who are on my shelves then they could sign the books while they’re here. Maybe they’ll bring friends so I could meet new authors. Want to come?
I just bought Melting Stones. It was a near thing with Rampart. Melting Stones doesn’t really fit with any of my current challenges but I’ve got to read it right now anyways.
Right now it’s Robert Jordan’s The Gathering Storm except I’ll have to wait for the next two in the trilogy before the series is complete and I can read the whole series from start to finish.
Also, Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough have a co-authored book coming out in January: Catalyst. Christine Feehan’s Dark Slayer; the next book in the Magic Circle series by Tamora Pierce after Melting Stones; and what ever books Elizabeth Lowell, Stephanie Laurens and Lilian Jackson Braun publish next. I’d add Dick Francis but his book came out this month and I’ve already got it.
Favorite book blogs:
Here’s just a few. With all the links between blogs, I’m always finding a new “favorite”.
J.Kaye’s Book Blog
Musings of a Bookish Kitty
Lost in Books
Naked without Books
All about {n}
Everything distills into Reading
Romance. Maybe with a twist.
Reading addict, semi-social hermit. See, I have a hard time limiting myself!
AAHHHH!!! Another blogger who is a fan of McCaffery AND Jordan?! This blog is going on my Google Reader RIGHT NOW!