Bernadette’s Comments (group member since Jun 14, 2019)

Bernadette’s comments from the CPL's Book a Week Challenge group.

"[E]scapist fiction is [...] fiction that opens a door, shows the sunlight outside, gives you a place to go where you are in control, are with people you want to be with (and books are real places, make no mistake about that); and more importantly, during your escape, books can also give you knowledge about the world and your predicament, give you weapons, give you armour: real things you can take back into your prison. [...] As JRR Tolkien reminded us, the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers." — Neil Gaiman

"Brideshead was impressive rather than elegant; he is Joint-master with a local figure of fun named Sir Walter Strickland-Venables"
—Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

Nightwood

I've finally gotten around to actually reading The Lord of the Rings (not sure how I put it off for this long!). So, the first two books in the trilogy (on the third right now) would be my favorite.

Done :)