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Portable Magic
Reading, for me, is entertainment and an escape from the real world. But it can also inform and stretch the boundaries of the life I live.
Currently reading
A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Whisper Network
Progress:
54 %
Invisible Man
Progress:
28 %
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
Progress:
70/512 pages
Leading Change
Peanuts Classics
Progress:
66 %
The Bungalow Mystery
Progress:
192/192 pages
The Bungalow Mystery #3
Progress:
192/192 pages
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
Smith of Wootton Major / Farmer Giles of Ham ★★★★★
I admit I'm biased, but I loved these two short stories as much now as I did when I was a little kid just discovering Tolkien. I feel as though they represent both his love of the heroic and the mysteriously romantic nature seen in LotR, but also his affectionately scathing take on human nature seen in The Hobbit. With SoWM illustrating the first and FGoH the second. I think these would be a good intro to Tolkien for anyone hesitant to make the larger commitment to his novels.
Paperback version, found at my public library's Friends of the Library sale.
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