Four things. First, I need to spend more time reading. Seriously.
Second, I hit up the bargain book sale today outside the bookstore and now have exactly 1,000 books. …
The Archives: J.R.R. Tolkien
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I’m not entirely sure what’s going on, but I feel busier than I’ve been in a long time. Objectively speaking, though, I don’t think that’s actually the case. …
1. Tonight I tried out speed dating for the first time. (It was a ward activity.) Holy smokes, I loved it! I love getting to know people …
In the mythsoc digest that came through last night, there’s a fascinating article by Jef Murray as part of the January 2008 issue of his Mystical Realms newsletter:
In …
Today is J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday. He’d be 115 today, actually, which mainly makes me wonder why I wasn’t paying attention when his eleventy-first birthday happened back in 2005. ~sigh~
To …
From Yahoo News:
NEW YORK — Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” a planned prequel to the blockbuster trilogy “The Lord …
The Prince Caspian trailer is out. Mmm. Now, just how many days till May 16? :)
In other news (from a rather opposite direction :)), at Christianity …
8. Amor libris
I finished my finals last night. One semester of grad school down, three to go. But let’s not worry about the to-go part just yet — I’ve got …
It’s snowing. A lot. And I’m tucked up somewhat cozily on the fifth floor of the library, pecking away on this post as I do my darndest to …
10. Mynyd Mawr
Good news! A few days ago I talked with the department chair of Special Collections and snagged an internship there for this summer, going through all the valuable books …
This morning I came across a great post by Michael Drout, called Children of Húrin or, Tolkien: The Scholars and the Critics. It’s a brilliant response to …
My thoughts on the Sunday afternoon session of General Conference.
L. Tom Perry. I need to keep asking myself if I’m befriending those who need it. Sometimes it’s easy, …
The hosts of Mordor are on the march, flooding every city and town and hamlet where man can be found. Like a massive wall of evil, an avalanche of …
Uno: Last night I biffed it for the first time this season. Came out of it mostly unscathed, luckily — I broke my fall with my left hand, tore …
15. Dragons departed
I finished Here, There Be Dragons last night. Remember how I said, “I’m a third of the way into it and liking it”? What I meant was that …
Fatigue sits on my shoulders, weighs me down, tugs on my eyelids, hums lullabies in my head. I don’t think I’m particularly stressed, but my body begs to differ. …
I’ve been listening to some Loreena McKennitt music lately, and also reading C.S. Lewis’s novel Till We Have Faces (which takes place in a barbaric country on the border of …
18. Mythsauce
Ran across this nugget in C.S. Lewis’s review of Lord of the Rings:
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them …
Since I’m not a big fan of Halloween (both on the condoning-the-occult front and on the candy front), I’ve spent the evening reading instead of trick-or-treating. A few chapters …
The other day a friend of mine e-mailed me a fictional newspaper story she’d written, about communication with Mars. As I read it, excitement blistered through my brain, and …
1. Today the books were 90% off. You can guess what happened. :) $35 and eighteen books later, I’m at 731. Saved $300. Thank heavens …
Today I was trucking over to the Maeser Building (which is on the very farthest corner of campus), trying to get to my Deductive Logic class on time, when I …
23. Two if by sea
I can’t remember if I blogged on here about my semi-decision to stay in Provo and get my Masters in Library Science online. If I didn’t, well, there it …
24. Mumble mumble
This’ll be a quickie. Remember how I wrote about those little slugs a week or two ago? One of them darted across my desk this morning. I …
It’s simple, really: literary theory is booooooooooooring.
I suppose I’d better explain. I love books. I adore literature. I’m going to be a librarian. I can’t stop …
Even though Bookland is suspended in cyberamber, I seem to have not written much about books lately. So, here’s a book post. :)
I keep my current reading log …
27. Fairy stories
It’s incredible how good we can get at avoiding something we don’t want to do. Take this Music 201 paper that’d due on Thursday, for example. I should …
28. A day of books
Yesterday was unique. Because everything was closed, I spent practically the whole day reading. Mmm. (FHE and an hour of painting with watercolors were the only non-reading …
