I recently (and temporarily) put aside my re-read of The Silmarillion for a reading of Katherine Rundell’s Impossible Creatures.  The book has a lot of buzz (and fans) across the Atlantic.  When a co-worker put the book on my radar, I thought it would be worth the possibility.  As I write this, I’m about 80 pages in and loving it.  It’s a lot like the Wingfeather series while still being something all its own (and wonderfully rooted in our own world . . . via Scotland).  Here’s my favorite quote so far:

Some sentences have the power to change everything.  There are the usual suspects: I love you, I’m pregnant, I’m dying, I regret to tell you that this country is at war.  But the words with the greatest power to create both havoc and marvels are these:

“I need your help.”