Where the Dragons Live

Well, it's been a while! Cin, Paula nope not vacationing or anything more ominous just somehow one day drifted into another without me doodling or even turning the laptop on outside of work to even browse let alone post. Dawn I'm glad you like the site and yes, I think I'm back...

I always read at least two books a week, but every so often I have a real reading marathon, and that's what I have been doing for the last couple of weeks. Nothing too adult though, which is more or less illustrated by the little pencil doodle for this post. I have been lost in a couple of new reads and a fair few re-reads of books already on my bookshelves. The last couple of weeks have seen me actually get around to starting again and finishing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix so I could then read Harry Potter and the Half Blood prince for the first time. Then it saw me re-read Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funk; Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver and Eragon by Christopher Paolini and then add some first reads: Inkheart by Cornelia Funk; The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funk; The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud; The Wish List by Eoin Colfer and presently Eldest by Christopher Paolini. Seeing a common theme here? It would be a nightmare for anyone who has outgrown their inner child and thirst for good old good verses evil journeys involving elves, dwarfs, mythical creatures and magic and of course dragons. I however have not outgrown such things!

The Technical Bit.

0.9 2B Propelling Pencil on Cartridge Paper

Comments

[GingerPixels]

Hi Charlie! Love your dragadoodle!

I finished Harry Potter and the HBP about two days after I got it.... I hate when I read too fast, but I couldn't help myself. I am awaiting Book the Twelfth of Lemony Snickets series of Unfortunate events....in the meantime reading the Kite Runner... very good but also disturbing, and looking for more James Patterson, Sue Grafton and almost ready to begin another John Grishom- "The Broker" I guess that's what I get for working in a used book store.
And yes, I do have a heavy illustration assignment waiting, but gee, shouldn't we be well balanced? So, now I will go for a swim. How about Illo Friday suggestion: PRO CRAS TIN ATION.....

[Cin]

Hiiiiii Charlie was really a bit worried imagining all sorts of things and here you've just been reading!! thank goodness! love the dragon, I've done a bookplate of one with a somewhat similar face that I'll have to show you one day. Looks like we enjoy the same sort of books too, I'm currently listening too "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell" if you've read it I'd love to know what you thought once I'm finished (after which I'll work on the latest Harry Potter!) Glad you're back!

[paula]

Whew! I'm glad you finally reappeared, Charlie. I was just about to Google obituaries to see if...Hey, it happens. But that's just how my thinking goes these days.

Happily away reading, were/are ya? Good for you! A blog break is a good idea from time to time. I'm afraid I can't identify with your taste in books but I can appreciate the passion. It' sounds like you're thoroughly enjoying yourself. And we appreciate you popping in just to let us know that you're still amongst us!

[Courtney]

Great to see you back Charlie. Love the dragon :)

[Paul]

Very Eastern feel to your dragon Charlie. Great stuff.

[Charlie]

Thanks all for the Welcome Backs.

GingerPixels.. I always read quickly and normally flit between three books at a time but for some reason I still take it all in. I just can't read slowly and I will easily read 300 pages in a sitting and then wonder why I can't focus on anything further than a foot away.

I'd love to see the bookplate Cin. I normally don't draw things like that dragon, my ability to translate those kind of images from my head to paper is very limited!

Paula, I know that I have now reach the big four zero but.... Everyone has different reading tastes. My book shelves fall into three distinct areas; The kind described in the last post; travel writing; serial writers the likes of Bryson, Palin, Theroux, and the one off books where people have relocated lives or gone on extraordinary journeys and then natural world reference books. Oh, and of course good old detective stories the likes of Sherlock Holmes and Poirot. So I guess that is four then!

Courtney, glad you like the drawing.

Paul, the Eastern mythology and style of the dragon is far more appealing to me than the Western idea of dragons.

[tj.]

try the books of danceing with dragons, dragon mistick magick from DJ.conway.
and dragonology by caandlewick press they'll have a somewhat resemblence to them you'll see it expeshly if you read it with (the dragonology cronicals the dragon's eye). and inkspell sequal to inkhart. also try the alchemist by Paulo Coelho.