Taran Wanderer | 
1. Definitely the Challenger explosion. I was home sick that day and heard it first on the radio. Also, when the movie The Day After, about nuclear war, debuted on TV.
2. Trying to stick with the library! But I have a rule that pre-orders for my favorite authors don't count...
3. The Prydain Cycle and anything else by Lloyd Alexander. I always loved to read but those books were magic.
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pickA whole book about Taran wandering Prydain trying to find out his parentage, but learning so much more along the way. This has a lot of growth for Taran, the lesson he learned that I loved most was that “even he is capable of horrible thoughts but how he acts after those thoughts are who he truly desires to be” it‘s presented & taught that it‘s human nature to think in both “good & evil” but how we act in response to them is the important aspect.
so-soGreat series but this was the weakest one so far. Taran goes in search of his parents and gets into a lot of situations which gets a bit repetitive at times.
Day 1 of #7Days7Covers. Thanks for the tag, @sudi !
I know I don‘t have to explain, but I want y‘all to know this cover gave me a lifelong obsession with artist Jody Lee. 10-year-old me saved up so I could replace my copies of the rest of the Chronicles of Prydain with her covers, and my heart still sings when I see her stuff. I think she works exclusively for DAW these days.
Hevydd the Smith & Dwyvach the Weaver use different metaphors to explain their views on life, but both value #effort. #QuotsyApr19
@gradcat you requested more #catwithbook pics so here‘s what Minerva‘s up to today. Not quite #KAL-worthy since I was able to slide the books out from under her this time. #CatsofLitsy #ReadingBuddy
pickFinished this with the kiddo this morning. A departure from the adventure stories of the first three, but definitely a good one. This is the story of Taran‘s maturity, of learning what it means to be a man, not just older. At times thrilling and at others heartbreaking, Taran‘s quest is a new level of depth in the series.
And these are the books I grabbed from Book Outlet for myself. The Strays is a book I loved and wanted to own a copy of, and I‘ve been slowly collecting these special editions of the Black Cauldron series! #bookoutlethaul
I‘ve been reading the series to my daughter (now five, but we started the first book when she was four). We read other series and stand-alone books interspersed, too.
We‘ve been reading Taran Wanderer for a little over a week, and it‘s been a couple months since we read the previous title.
Yesterday she insisted on staging a play of The Castle of Llyr with her dolls, so for two days we‘ve been assigning roles and adapting the story. Love my kid.
pickI was FURIOUS at this book when l first read it as a child. As an adult, it's one of my favorites. Alexander has such love for his characters, and writes their arcs of maturation without preaching or heavy-handedness. This is an all-around lovely tale.
pickBook 4 of the chronicles of Prydain reads like a cross between a prequel and a collection of short stories though it is neither. It centers on the main protagonist of the series (Taran) and is a 'finding oneself' book. The weakest of the series so far, though I am happy I read it. It adds to the overall series, though not much.
pickNice to be finished with the fourth installment in listening to the Chronicles of Prydain! Though this isn‘t my favorite of the five books, I think I appreciated this one more this time around! And great for #audiocoloring!!
1. I've reread the Chronicles of Prydain 11x and both Sandman & the Vampire Chronicles 10x.
2. Pad Thai!
3. You should watch Jane the Virgin if you like diverse things and bright colours and great characters and evil twins and Crime Lord Mothers and WILD PLOT TWISTS and women with different attitudes towards sex and seriously good family dynamics and turquoise hotels.
4. Y'all know tagging people stresses me out.
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Reading with my lil buddy.
Of the many stories I wish I had also read when I was younger, this series is one.
What better or more powerful #journey than the one Taran takes through the land of Prydain, seeking to learn who he truly is? His journey is both physical and mental, literal and metaphorical. In the end he learns both far less and far more than he hoped, and I believe I learned important lessons from this book when I was a child, as well. #jubilantjuly
#samebookdifferentcover #aprilbookshowers
Pulled from my boyfriends collection. I'm sure he has another version, or two, somewhere.
pickI loved this one. Just raced through it. So much wisdom and truth in one small volume. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I'm only a chapter into this one and I'm already enthralled. I can see why Sarah J Maas says "I think I learned nearly every meaningful life lesson from Taran Wanderer." Lovers of high fantasy, get into this series!
