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The Hobbit
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien | 1937 | Children
10
8.4 (144 Ratings)
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Timeless favorite.
I loved The Hobbit from first sentence to the very last word. The World that Tolkien created is just so beautiful and massive the amount of detail he wrote really just makes middle earth feel like such a real place that you can easily picture every tree and mountain.

The Characters are all just as equally wonderful and through out the book you meet a great many of them and that saying something since the dwarves alone make up thirteen characters. Bilbo really was my favorite(besides Gandalf who is my favorite through out the whole series)he such a reluctant protagonist but you really see him grow brave as the story progresses.

This book has without a doubt because one of my favorite books of all time.
  
A Monster Calls (2016)
A Monster Calls (2016)
2016 | Drama, Fantasy
Tearjerker, exploring a young boy's grief
This was an unexpected little gem of a drama showing how a boy, who is having to deal with tremendous trauma, manifests his grief.

From being bullied, abandoned and dealing with a mother dying from cancer, one day a monster in the form of a tree visits him to reveal various tales with a moral context. These come in the form of beautiful animations, not too dissimilar from The Three Brothers sequence in one of the final Harry Potter films. What we have to establish is whether the boy is actually encountering this monster or whether it is part of his repressed emotions.

Acting from the entire cast including Felicity Jones and more so the young child actor was fantastic. An interesting watch.
  
I was looking for a palate cleanser book and I stumbled upon this one through audible channels. I've always noticed the Magic Tree House series but I haven't ever had the chance to read any of them. When I saw this was on there & I could listen to it for free, I knew I had to listen to it.

This is obviously a very easy read where the writing is written for those just learning to read. It was a cute story and it was a really quick and fun listen. It doesn't stand out for me, but obviously, I'm not the proper age for this book.

All in all, if I have kids this would be one of the series I would read to them. It's educational along with adding an element of fantasy.