My friend acquired three large second-hand bookshelves for me. I was ecstatic; my problem has always been too many books and no place to put them. They end up stacked in all directions on the shelf, and then stacked around the apartment. I don’t like that. Several years ago, I sent a few hundred books [...]
Get your copy of Thror’s Map from “The Hobbit” as I prove my geekiness.
The Hobbit is hot again. It’s in the theater and the products are in the bookstores and Big Box stores, and it makes me want to establish some pre-Hobbit-furor legitimacy. My Tolkien Credentials I’m not the biggest, most knowledgeable fan ever. The Silmarillion et. al. don’t readily come to mind when pressed for facts. However, [...]
You might not like it, but don’t ban or burn it.
| Banned Book Week just finished; it was September 30 – October 6 this year. | It takes a lot for me to tell you not to burn something, because I love fires. I come from a farm family filled with many glorious stories of burning ditches gone wrong. Despite my love of a good blaze, I [...]
