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Bobby Jack, you apologize to your brother right now! Hear?

If I lived in Sherwood Forest, I would be scaring away all the game, with my constant screams of, "It's a traaaaaaap!"

My husband is out of town, and I'm not sure I should be reading this right now . . .

I cannot get over this middle grade book tackling topics like the occupation of France and the Lebensborn program . . . and doing it SO WELL.

There is a BABY wandering around a hostile world with nothing but a couple of TOOTHBRUSHES and some Legos for protection.

Lunar and Dread are very precious to me.

Audiobook had to go back to the library, so now I'm reading it with my EYES instead of my EARS. Like a PEASANT.

Audiobook had to go back to the library!

LOVING this!

The first one was darling, but I'm liking this one even more!

I keep thinking of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, when Lisa reads The Raven to Bart.

"Hey, Lis? You know what would be scarier than nothing?"
"What?"
"ANYTHING!"

I'm reading this with my face scrunched up and my heart pounding. This is the kind of near miss, don't-you-understand-who-that-really-is is just KILLING ME.

Was this book written specifically for me?!

There is a surprisingly high body count for a middle grade book!

The realization that this was all just happening in Tolkien's brain and he probably had even more going on makes me think I shouldn't even be writing.

Great stuff so far! Really loving this!

This book is too long to make me be this tense the whole time. I don't know if I'll make it! Also, every part of my body clenches up when I get to a Duchess chapter. Dammit, Duchess, don't screw everything up for everyone!

Obviously I had to start this before I had even put the box in the recycling! I frequently preorder things from B&N when they have their preorder sales, and then forget about them, but I've watched the updates on this one so eagerly! I laughed so hard reading her first book that I dropped it twice, and this one is equal parts hilarious and bittersweet, and I'm so happy!

I had forgotten that everyone only wears primary colors. Egwene is currently wearing a "light red" gown. I'm sorry . . . do you mean pink? Is it . . . unmanly . . . to use the word pink in a book where half (or MORE) of the characters are women or something?

(Yes, I'm aware that light red is SORT OF a thing. But I genuinely think he refused to put anyone in a pink dress.)

Good grief this is adorable!

Five grown men, one of them the police commissioner, just sat down playing poker for thousands of dollars. If you tried to pitch this as a children's book today they would laugh in your face!

Just read the Werewolf by Night origin story and great Scott, that is some seventies soap opera right there! It was like reading an episode of Dark Shadows!

This is marvelously charming!

Almost to the halfway point, and every single member of the Washington family needs to get their @#$% together. I mean SERIOUSLY.