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I just finished up The Children of Húrin. I’d recommend it to Tolkien fans, but it’s a little harder to recommend more broadly. The book is written in a style much like that in The Silmarillion – like a legend from the past being retold thousands of years later – and so it lacks the [ READ MORE ]
… for now. I’m hoping it at least lasts through tomorrow. I think we may be back to freezing temperatures later this week. I took advantage of the good weather today and put the fancy wheels/summer tires back on the car (with much-appreciated help from Cressa). I discovered one tire’s got a screw stuck in [ READ MORE ]
Via Slashdot, the last unfinished-and-then-subsequently-finished-by-his-son Tolkien book, The Children of Húrin, is set to be released April 17th. That suggests that I’m going to need to hurry up and get through the latest Dan Simmons book in record time[ READ MORE ]