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Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
by Lesley M.M. Blume
If I could pick only one book to describe myself, my dreams, and my personality, it would be this one. Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters will always have a very treasured place in my heart. I read it for the first time at 8 years old and immediately fell in love. I saw myself in Cornelia and Virginia, and the storytelling spoke to my soul in a way no other book (save for Harry Potter) had thus far in my reading life. Rereading it now, I’m transported back to how I felt, discovering a whole new world of adventures, but ones that could happen in real life. For that’s what this book is. It makes you feel like you’re reading a fantasy, the storytelling is captivating and it’s escapism at its finest, but it shows you the wonder in places and people that exist in our world. Looking at this book, I’m astonished at how much of my personality, my incessant wanderlust particularly, that I’ve picked up from this story. Reading this book in my formative years truly helped to change me into the person I am today. This story speaks to my soul and will always live in my heart, and to say I adore it is an understatement. Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters will always be one of my favorite books of all time and I know I’ll reread it many more times over the years, when I want to feel the childlike sense of wonder I always do when experiencing this book. There are absolutely not enough words to describe how I feel about the story and these characters, since I don’t think anything but the book itself could ever do them justice.