This is my favourite children's classic, and I am excited to re-read this!! One thing that I love about this book is how it transports you to the mountains, and since reading this as a child, I've always wanted to live in the mountains!

this whole painting thing is so painful lol its so obvious who Mr.Elton fancies ahhh its such a slowburn, ive seen the 2009 BBC miniseries of Emma so im very excited to see how it reads!!

I need a 700+ page book for a reading challenge but I have none on my tbr. Any Recommendations? I am up for any genre, as long as it can keep me entertained for that long.

this is my comfort book that i always come back to when sad or upset, i can flip to basically any part and feel happy its kinda insane lol.. anyone else feel this way??

Oh my god!! I'm in the meeting with all the earth leaders, the narrators Australian accent just made me laugh out loud, so bad! 1000 points for trying though! That was amazing 😅

"...that in this matter it would be well to trust rather to their friendship than to great wisdom." this line coming after a thirty plus page chapter full of 'so us wise folks failed' and 'so Saruman the wisest of all us actually sucks' really makes it hit more. reason #230 why it's sometimes the smallest and most ordinary things that are most important I imagine trudging through the snows of Caradhras to be rather like that time last semester when a blizzard hit my school and I had to walk from my dorm to the cafeteria through a wind that kept pushing me around and smacking snow so hard into my face it hurt while trying not to slip. fun times those were the sheer audacity of Legolas to tell Gandalf he's gonna go find the sun and then run past Boromir and Aragorn toiling through snow taller than I am is stunning

Beppo, the man you are.

This book rlly reminds me, why I turned out the way I did. It is still baffling to me, how the discussed topics are still so relevant. I read this book the first time, when I was about 11 years old and it rlly shows. These pages shaped me, like no other book I read in my entire life and I wouldn’t want it any other way. So if u can spare the time/ want something that gets u thinking and questioning our view of the world and time and also friendships, I can recommend this book wholeheartedly.

Also, Beppo rlly won in life and we should all be a little more like him.

» You see, Momo,' he [Beppo Roadsweeper] told her one day, 'it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept.' He gazed silently into space before continuing. 'And then you start to hurry,' he went on. 'You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop - and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it.' He pondered a while. Then he said, 'You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.' Again he paused for thought before adding, 'That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be.' There was another long silence. At last he went on, 'And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit. What's more, you aren't out of breath.' He nodded to himself. 'That's important, too,' he concluded. «