“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” [J. K. Rowling] When I opened to the first page of Colin Meloy’s Wildwood, I knew an adventure was about to take place! The first sentence alone emits so much curiosity that the reader grips the edges of the book as a…
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In a Hole in the Ground
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” [J…
Besides the Wardrobe
“And that is the very end of the adventure of the wardrobe. But if the Professor was right it was only the beginning of the adventures of Narnia.” [C.S. Lewis] My reading goal for this year is fifty books. Last week I finished up reading my seventeenth book of the year. Here’s to book…
Rose on Reading 