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| August reads |
August was another great reading month for me. Four of the five books I finished were five stars, and one was four stars. The two fiction books I’ve written longer reviews of were both written by Madeline Miller, novel-length Circe (5/5 stars) and short story Galatea (5/5 stars). Needless to say, I loved them both! Click the links to read more about my thoughts.
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| Tilly and the Bookwanderers by Anna James |
“Our stories are how we will be remembered – so we’ve got to make sure they are worth telling.”
Eleven-year-old Matilda “Tilly” Pages lives upstairs the little bookshop kept by her grandparents. One day, she meets the main characters from her two favorite books – Alice in Wonderland and Anne of Green Cables – and learns that she can travel into books. Together with her friend Oskar they begin an adventure into the world of books and try to solve the mystery of what happened to Tilly’s mother.
Tilly and the Bookwanderers is a middle-grade fantasy for anyone who has wanted to travel into books or meet their favorite characters. Books about books, libraries, and bookstores as well as the idea that you can travel into books is something that I love. One of my favorite books last year (and also this year when I reread it) was WildWood Revisited by Cinasee Pollett. So when I spotted Tilly and the Bookwanderers in my local library, I knew I wanted to read it – even more so since one of my goals this year is to read a middle-grade book.
