Books for July, 2004

[pegkerr]

Realized I'd forgotten to do this. My list is quite short this month:

Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World by Verlyn Flieger. I'd mentioned before how impressive I found this book. Would be happy to read more of her work anytime.

Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. Ahem. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but this is a first time read. I'd attempted it before but never finished it. Reading the Flieger first made all the difference.

The Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander. This was sent to me by sdn. (Thanks, sdn!) It's a little embarrassing to admit this, too, but this is the first book of Lloyd Alexander I've read.

And that's it. Right now I'm re-reading The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers, so that will be on next month's list.

Edited to add: I did a quick count and the first six months of this year I've read 28 books. Some new, some re-reads. Hmm. That's probably more than the American average--substantially more, I guess (although I haven't combed through the report at length), but still less than I would have thought if I had hazarded a guess how many books I read in six months. Should I be embarrassed?

Comments

[jbru.livejournal.com]

Lloyd Alexander got me into Tolkien by way of C.S. Lewis. I started on Alexander in 6th grade, ripped through the limited selection of our library, got pointed at the Chronicles of Narnia and thence to The Hobbit. Went back to Lewis' science fiction series and got some other YA science fiction in there (I want to say Asimov, but it was probably Heinlein). Then I dove into The Lord of the Rings. The rest, as they say, is history.