Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
"It's a house," she insisted. "And the bottom picture is the ankh, the symbol for life. Per Ankh -- the House of Life."
~from The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan.
Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading. If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence.
I'm reading, with my six-year-old daughter, How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell.
Product Description: (from the back cover)
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly extraordinary Viking hero known throughout Vikingdom as "the Dragon Whisperer" . . . but it wasn't always so. Travel back to the days when the mighty warrior was just a boy, the quiet and thoughtful son of the Chief of the Hairy Hooligans. Can Hiccup capture a dragon and train it without being torn limb from limb? Join the adventure as the small boy finds a better way to train his dragon and becomes a hero!
The Opener:
There were dragons when I was a boy.
We are almost finished with this and I, truthfully, am quite ready to be done. It just feels very tedious to me. However, I'm willing to admit that this may just be a personality issue as my husband has seemed to enjoy what's he's overheard. I will also acknowledge that I am not the target audience age-wise -- and my daughter is just fine with it. :)
'The Red Pyramid' kind of sounds interesting.
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I need to recommend this to my granddaughter
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Your reading list is astounding and inspiring :) I hear you about the tediousness of certain children's books though... We're just getting into chapter books here, and obviously some are better than others!
ReplyDeleteI do like that opener...simple, but it grabs me.
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http://laurelrainsnowswonderland.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/book-beginnings-on-friday-14/
For a kids book it seems like a good opener. The speaker seems a bit whymsical while they're reminising
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Red Pyramid (review posted yesterday) and my daughter has the next Cressida Cowell out and is enjoying it (on her own this time;))
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