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Book Reviews
In the couple weeks since I last posted anything here I've been enjoying being able to read just for fun (there was also an unpleasant incident where I got put on probation at work for a supervisor's actions over which I… -
"New" Tolkien Book and Other Summer Reading
Tolkien fans rejoice! In less than three weeks a previously unpublished book by J. R. R. Tolkien will go on sale. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun is "Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic N… -
The Ultimate Silmarillion (and other summer reading)
One thing that I've been enjoying about summer vacation is reading whatever I want to read instead of textbooks assigned by professors. One of the books I decided to re-read was J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. In ca… -
Wanted: Good Fantasy Author
I grew up reading J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. I've read the Lord of the Rings trilogy (LOTR) and The Chronicles of Narnia series probably a dozen times each and most of their lesser known fiction at least once. SI… -
"I cannot live without books." --Thomas Jefferson, 1815
I love this quote! I know exactly how Jefferson felt (though I have significantly more respect for the Bible as THE BOOK than he did). I first saw this quote on the public library in Ankeny, IA when I was going to colleg…
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- Name: Joel
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