Bilbo Baggins is my spirit animal. Kinda wanna travel but kinda wanna stay home? Kinda wants to socialize but also kinda hates people? Period girlypop, I understand your soul

“After all the others had ordered their breakfasts without so much as a please (which annoyed bilbo very much), they all got up.”

Me too, Bilbo. Me too. 😭😭

sometimes you’re having lots of changes in your life and they are good and you feel like you’ve started to find a home but it’s still all a bit overwhelming. and as you’re heading home late at night, content but bone tired, you suddenly know the only thing to do is press play on this audiobook and let andy serkis’s voice return you to the warm embrace of bilbo’s story 💌

Listening to the Andy Serkis audiobook and he's SINGING THE SONGS?! Obsessed.

Re-reading this for the first time as an adult. I'm now almost as old as Bilbo Baggins is in this book, and I sure do relate to his opinions about unknown, uninvited guests 😅

This has always been my going to sleep audiobook, but this time I'm going to actually listen and enjoy it fully 😌

Ana has a fabulously distinctive character voice, it's instantly iconic and recognisable lol. Also I'm using my Sam Vimes bookmark for this. Feels right

Really loving how Bennett goes about his worldbuilding. If there's any info dumping it's minimal at a time and most is explained through character dialogue exchanges.

Also Ana is amazing and I love her. Truly a great Holmes iteration

I am just starting this novel knowing it will be hard and reflective. I believe that it’s important to engage with literature that makes you uncomfortable, especially if it’s reflective of such a deep, dark point in our history. This will never NOT be a harsh reality, and I think many people shrug it off and try to pretend like it never happened to protect their own peace. Clay Cane says it perfectly—“discomfort is the extravagant price of truth.”