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Loneliness and Books About the Great Beyond

           I have some terrible, terrible news, everyone: my blogging partner Grace is away at sleepaway camp, where she will be deprived of Wifi, cell service and electricity (?) for the whole summer.  This means that, despite my crippling loneliness, the job of keeping this blog going will fall to me and only me for the next two and a half months.   I am very much afraid.      But don't worry!  We can make this work.  In honor of my current desolate state of mind my first post of the summer is going to be a list of great books about heroes who travel in time and space - a very lonely occupation, I've heard.         1. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: I am currently reading this crazy collection of 5 novels and enjoying every minute.  The book follows the adventures of a group of hitchhikers of various species as they make their across the galaxy saving planets, drinking Pan-Galactic Gargle-Blasters, escaping prehistory and scouring th