{"id":40995,"date":"2014-02-04T23:01:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/the-books-the-books.html"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:24:33","slug":"the-books-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/the-books-the-books.html","title":{"rendered":"The books! The books!"},"content":{"rendered":"
I'm in the midst of slogging through The Silmarillion.<\/i> I have a first edition hardcover from when it originally came out, but after several tentative forays, I am finally (forty years down the line) forcing my way through it. \u00a0And, damn, while admire the imagination and wordcrafting of Tolkien in creating an richly detailed mythos for his creation, I feel like I'm fighting to take the same literary hill over and over and over.<\/p>\n

After that? \u00a0Well, on the one hand, I've got my daughter reading Eddings' Belgariad,<\/i> which I feel I should probably do out of solidarity \/ common discussion.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I have a slough of books recommended to me from my writing group that sound intriguing and<\/i> useful to my current literary efforts.<\/p>\n

And, of course, there are a tonne of other books that I've picked up over the last several months that I want to read as well.<\/p>\n

My book-reading life is even more congested than my DVR-watching life is.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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I'm in the midst of slogging through The Silmarillion. I have a first edition hardcover from when it originally came out, but after several tentative forays, I am finally (forty years down the line) forcing my way through it. \u00a0And, damn, while admire the imagination and wordcrafting of Tolkien in creating an richly detailed mythos … Continue reading “The books! 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Which book has been on your shelves the longest?\u00a0 While I have books lurking in various places\u00a0that have been around for longer, the ones in my main bookshelves that are the the oldest are my Lord\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10364,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/05\/because_the_bible_tells_m.html","url_meta":{"origin":40995,"position":5},"title":"“… Because the Bible tells me so”","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Feb-07 9:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yikes. \u00a0 You know the Bible 100%! Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! 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