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This past week was BUSY! I’m still not reading a whole lot, my focus just isn’t there anymore. But I did polish off one book, and start a new one!
Finished
- Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth by J.R.R Tolkien – Our group finished this one up at the end of the last week! I think I enjoyed this more than The Silmarillion. I originally purchased this book for ONE section, the Istari, and it sat on my shelf for a long time. I finally got to read that section, which was the second to last, and it was totally worth the wait.
Currently Reading
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker – This is longer than I thought it was, but it’s fantastic. I saw the movie ages ago, but I don’t remember much of it so this has been mostly new to me.
- Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien – We are polishing off the Tales from the Perilous Releam collection by Tolkien. It holds the Adventures of Tom Bombadil which we read months ago. Rover is the story of a dog who finds himself on the receiving end of a wizard’s curse, and the story was created after one of Tolkien’s children lost his toy dog on the beach and it couldn’t be found.
I can’t remember if it was the Book of Unfinished Tales, or The Book of Lost Tales that Goodreads says has two parts (volumes), but the book I have doesn’t have a volume designation. I am trying to figure out how to find out if it is both parts one and two in one book. 😛 The Rover story sounds interesting!
After I finish Song of Blood and Stone I am going to read the third book in The Color Purple trilogy, Meridian. 👍
Thanks for TMTing. 💜
The Book of Lost Tales has two parts, I only have one as well.
I didn’t even know The Color Purple had a sequel! I’ll have to look those up.
I think the stories are not about the main TCP characters, but they all tie in somehow. It’s strange because the first book sounds more like a short story anthology. I was happy to see I had both of them on my Kindle. It’s called The Color Purple collection.
The Istari *nods* that’s mainly why I first bought it too, I was fascinated by the background especially of the other three wizards. All the other lore was just a bonus. 🙂