To be honest I almost abandoned it at the beginning. I love fantasy novels so was pretty sure I would love this one. When Marlo enters the wordsmith shop one day, he sets off a chain reaction of events that will change Letta's perception of the ideal society in which she believes she lives.I grabbed The List on a whim, seeing it on the shelf at the library. The List is the story of Letta, a wordsmith, whose job it is to create the lists of words that are allowed to be spoken by the people of Ark. Ruled by John Noa who fiercely guards language and considers it the root of all of mankinds problems. The List by Patricia Forde, published by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky - a fabulously imagined middle grade fantasy novel.Set in a future where climate change and global warming have culminated in a great "Melting", leaving only the city of Ark as the last habitable place on Earth.
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Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. If youâre comfortable with technology and want to contribute directly, check out this ebookâs GitHub repository and our contributors section. 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