Ever love a book so much you feel like you're really there and with just a tiny step you could jump inside? Ever wish you could talk to book characters in real-life? If you are half the reader Matilda "Tilly" Pages is, the answer is an unequivocal yes. The difference is that Tilly, her family, and many others can actually DO both. People called bookwanderers for whom the magic of reading becomes actually magical. And with magic comes danger, whether you are a character in a book talking with characters in another book or in the real-world talking with those or other characters or are a real, non-fictional person dealing with them in other books. If this makes your head spin, I know the feeling; both Dad and I felt a bit disoriented at times as Anna James' takes meta humor to strange levels and breaks the third wall in ways I have never seen.
Regardless and as Pablo Picasso says "everything you can imagine is real," meaning Tilly, Oskar, and all bookwanderers have a very real enemy lurking both within and without literature's pages.
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