From Maltman's Q & A with Jodi Chromey at Minnesota Reads:
What was your first favorite book?Visit Thomas Maltman's website.
The Hobbit wins hands down. That book saved my life during a difficult year when we moved from California to Oregon. It offered enchantment and escape and a sense of wonder. My ordinary world, plagued by bullies and endless rain, looked drab in comparison, but the novel taught me the power of the imagination. I wrote lots of stories of my own featuring flying eagles and midgets with hairy feet. My life got better, but I’ve been chasing that same sense of wonder in books and writing ever since.
I refuse to see the movie, however, still fuming that Peter Jackson turned it into a trilogy. Stop with the trilogies, Hollywood. The subtitle of The Hobbit is There and Back Again. Any sensible adventure brings us home again at a sensible time.
Let’s say Fahrenheit 451 comes to life, which book would you become in order to save it from annihilation?
Whoa. No pressure or anything, right? I would become...[read on]
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