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Monthly Archives: March 2014
It’s officially Summer Time
For those of us in the UK who lost an hour’s sleep yesterday.
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500th post!
Good lord, this is my five hundredth post. I’m going to use it to review a book, which isn’t a great surprise I suppose.
Review:
Revelations
The Merlin Chronicles Book One
Daniel Diehl
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Pub Date Sep 30 2013
Review:’Intervention: The Pandora Virus’ by WRR Munro
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Happy Tolkien Reading Day!
*puts down tablet, picks up book* I think I’m quite ready to read The Two Towers this afternoon.
Today is Tolkien Reading Day, an annual event launched in 2003 by the Tolkien Society. (The date of 25 March was chosen in honour of the fall of Sauron in the Third Age, year 3019, in Tolkien’s fiction.) The reading day promotes the use of Tolkien’s writing in schools and library groups, and is celebrated in numerous countries. To mark the occasion, we’ve put together ten of our favourite quotations from John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. The first quotation, about Beowulf, is especially timely because of the recent announcement that Tolkien’s translation of that epic poem is finally going to be published!
On Beowulf and myth: ‘The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who feels rather than makes explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate in the world of history and geography, as our poet has done. Its defender…
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Hretha’s Drumbeats
Rattling drumbeats calling out
Howling trumpets soaring
Hretha’s army is on the march
Seek refuge while you can
Or, it started pouring down with rain just before I finished work this afternoon and I got soaked.
This, by the way, is my inadequate introduction to my post. Forgive the truly poor poetry. It was inspired by the weather this afternoon. My brain bounced from ‘the weather is awful’ to
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Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf
Will finally be published on the 22nd May 2014.
Book Review Indices Up To Date
Finally!
I’ve spent the last 45 minutes or so getting the Index up to date. I’m going to try to update them every three months.
I feel like I haven’t reviewed an awful lot of books since December.
And now I really am going shopping.
Time for tea
A cup of tea that is. 
I’ve spent the morning reading (see previous post) Continue reading “Time for tea”
