Lindy Leonard’s Reviews > Impossible Creatures > Status Update

I'm reading one fantasy book and listening to another, and within a few hours each one referenced John Donne. What are the odds? 👀

"And so he grew older and taller—they were a tall family, with gangling legs and finely made hands—and he waited. What he was waiting for, Christopher couldn’t have explained: he only hoped, in a way that burned in his lungs and stomach, that there was something more than that which he had so far seen. The animals felt like a promise. (He was right. It was an astonishment that would change his life forever.)"