Happy New Year! I hope all of you had a safe new year's celebration, and that you didn't indulge too much and end up feeling awful yesterday morning. Thanks to an incoming winter storm, I spent New Year's Eve at home alone again. The forecast stated that the snow would probably start around 10:00 on … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: January 2, 2022
The Lord of the Rings
Sunday Sum-Up: December 26, 2021
Busy, busy week last week! As I expected for the last week before Christmas. Work was hectic but should be slowing down after the New Year, so I'm looking forward to that. But after all the busyness, I spent Christmas weekend at my parents' house with them, my grandmother, and my sister's family. We had … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: December 26, 2021
Sunday Sum-Up: December 19, 2021
Okay. Weird week. It started out well enough. Monday was fine. On Tuesday I went to J&S's house to celebrate J's birthday, which was fun even if their kids were extra squirrely. Then Wednesday came along. I walked outside on Wednesday morning, and it was weirdly warm and humid. Like it might be on a … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: December 19, 2021
Book Haul: The Lord of the Rings, illustrated edition
Last spring or so, I found out that a new edition of The Lord of the Rings was coming out and that it would include illustrations by Tolkien himself, who in addition to being a philologist, Oxford don, husband, and father, was also a wonderful illustrator. While some editions of The Lord of the Rings … Continue reading Book Haul: The Lord of the Rings, illustrated edition
The Grim, the Dark, and the Light of Middle-earth
Once upon a time, in a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, George R.R. Martin made a few comments about The Lord of the Rings and the flaws he saw therein. While he stated that he is a fan of Tolkien and of The Lord of the Rings, Martin declared that Tolkien had a "medieval philosophy" … Continue reading The Grim, the Dark, and the Light of Middle-earth
New Lord of the Rings Audiobook Preview
In my last Sunday Sum-Up, I mentioned that Andy Serkis is narrating a new The Lord of the Rings audiobook. Because I'd only heard mentionings of it over the summer, I thought that it would be released sometime next year. Readers, I was wrong. Wonderfully wrong. The new The Lord of the Rings audiobook comes … Continue reading New Lord of the Rings Audiobook Preview
Sunday Sum-Up: August 22, 2021
It's tomato season around here. I don't know about the rest of the country, but here in Nebraska, everyone with a garden plants roughly one-hundred tomato plants, as though they expect that only one in five plants will produce anything. But of course, each plant produces enough for a dozen people, and so everyone goes … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up: August 22, 2021
The Medieval Queens Book Tag
I saw this on One Book More, and could not resist doing it myself. Medieval queens being rather on brand for me and all. The tag was created by Jess from Jessticulates, so a Huzzah to her for creating it! Empress Matilda (1102-1167) After her father, Henry I, died naming her his heir, Matilda’s cousin, … Continue reading The Medieval Queens Book Tag
Tag: Twenty Questions
Mary at Mary and the Words tagged me yesterday, so I'm going to do this today. She saw it on Jessica's blog, The Awkward Book Blogger, and from there could not track down the original source. I didn't know what else to write about this week, so let's do a tag! How many books are … Continue reading Tag: Twenty Questions
Tolkien Tag
Look! Another tag! A Tolkien Tag at that! I'm sure you're all shocked that I'm doing one. I'll just wait over here while you get over this great shock. I'll be over here with Haldir and the Elves of Lothlorien, who most certainly did not pledge their allegiance to Elendil. Anyway. I saw this tag … Continue reading Tolkien Tag
Traveling in Books 