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An easy read, but chock full of beautifully turned phrases. Already underlined to death.

Willa Cather is so good at description:
“No one on Back Creek could remember a finer autumn; frosts before sunrise, summer heat at noon, chill nights. All morning the mountain lay in a soft blue haze, and in the afternoon broad fans of heavy golden sunlight warmed its back and flanks. The great maples in Mrs. Blake's yard were like blazing torches; scarlet leaves fluttered softly down to the green turf.”

I am SO sick and tired of the sons of Fëanor and their ridiculous oath! 😭 Good grief.

HURRAH! The ring is dead and King Elessar, Aragorn, Ranger of the North has returned for his throne! The hobbits are restored and their appetite quenched, and the Anduin flows clear and unpolluted to the sea! Three cheers for Gondor! Three cheers for Gandalf and for Frodo the Nine-fingered and for Samwise Gamgee the Valiant!!