“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…
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