I love this book. Milo is a child who doesn't really enjoy anything. He just kind of goes through life. One day he receives a package in his room that is marked "the phantom tollbooth." This package transports him into another world. This is the plot of the book.
I had actually read this before but I cheated and put it on the list anyway. It seemed really appropriate at the time.
It seemed appropriate because of the only part I had remembered from when I read it as a child. There is an episode about "jumping to conclusions" that occurs about half-way through that is pretty typical of how this book plays with words and creatively teaches to its younger audience (it is a children's book). I felt I could benefit from this playful, frank way of understanding things now. And I think it worked.
I was looking for something fun to read as part of this book challenge. In college I was an English major and all I did was read but in truth I stopped liking it. And part of my doing this book challenge was to make it interesting to me again. This book was all about that for me.
It was a good time. :)
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