One day I will write the post "why I read fantasy" (or maybe I'll start simply with a bullet list). Suffice it to say, there were times in my life when harpies, goblins, and tough little pull-herself-up-by-her-bootstraps princesses were just as real to me as Brownie leaders, lunch ladies, and the office of the registrar.
As this school year draws to a close, the number of families clamoring for diagnostic reports exceeds that which I can hold in my head, and I've rediscovered Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern. I first read these books by checking them out of the high school library, but I enjoy them just as much now, if not more so, as a quasi-adult who actually reads the subplots concerning grown-up characters in between the major developments in the YA love story. At least most of the time. And when I skip ahead to the good parts, I almost always go back and read what I've skipped.
When I was a teenager, one of my Christmas gifts was The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, containing, among other things, a recipe for bubbly pies that I never got around to baking. But maybe this weekend is the time. Happily, my fellow nerds have posted several recipes (most regrettably restricted to "Terran blueberries") across the interweb. Berries have been half price for a few weeks now. And it sure beats report-writing.
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