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L.M. Rapp:
If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?
L.M. Rapp
If I could travel to a fictional world… I’d be torn between two opposing impulses. Part of me would love to wander beneath the silver canopies of Lothlórien and listen to Elvish songs. Or, more realistically, settle in a hobbit hole for second breakfast, tea, dinner — and why not supper?
But I might just prefer the quiet elegance of an English sitting room, sipping tea with Belinda Bede, the gently sardonic heroine of Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym. We’d talk about vaguely charming Anglican clergymen, forgotten books, and the hidden beauty of uneventful lives.
In the end, I hover somewhere between epic quests and civilised conversation — which, come to think of it, sums up my reading life rather well, and perhaps betrays an unshakable fondness for English humour.
But I might just prefer the quiet elegance of an English sitting room, sipping tea with Belinda Bede, the gently sardonic heroine of Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym. We’d talk about vaguely charming Anglican clergymen, forgotten books, and the hidden beauty of uneventful lives.
In the end, I hover somewhere between epic quests and civilised conversation — which, come to think of it, sums up my reading life rather well, and perhaps betrays an unshakable fondness for English humour.
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