“The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.”
Joan McEwan, a young woman with a gift for magic, navigates the complexities of adolescence and the supernatural while uncovering secrets about her family's history. more
“If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.”
“Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.”
“Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.”