Okay okay okay... Kenny Chesney and Renee Zellweger? Where did THAT come from? I haven't moved to BFE yet boys and girls -- were they even dating? How did I miss that one?!
On the other hand, after a conversation (that lasted 5 hours) Saturday night, Sean informed me that I had "fallen from favor" by not having seen the Lord of the Rings movies. We won't even mention what he said when I told him that the reason I hadn't seen the movies (just the 2nd and 3rd one) was because I had never read the books. So, after that marathon conversation, Brooke went out and bought the Fellowship of the Ring. I must say that I find it educationally rephrenensible that for someone who has supposedly been educated in english studies, read probably thousands of books, and has an english degree from Auburn University, that she never has read JRR Tolkien. Yes I realize that I'm talking in 3rd person.
I've read from the most obscure of writers to the most obvoious... including William Trevor, Willa Cather, Seamus Heaney, Basho, Niall Williams, Yeats, Kafka, Harper Lee, Thoreau, Emerson... I could, theoretically, go on forever. Four years of high school required reading, five years of english studies in American Romanticism, British Literature, Irish literature, the Fireside poets, Walden... all add up to the fact that as much as I've read -- as many books as I've been required to read in my 9 years of high school, undergraduate and graduate education, that I've never been asked to read JRR Tolkien. I probably never would have considered reading Tolkien had it not been for the expression on Sean's face when he spoke of his work -- Tolkien's and his own. I figured... if this man's books made Sean that excited -- well, I had to see what all the fuss was about. Not because they adapted three full length feature films from the three volumes. I haven't even gotten into the actual book yet -- merely on the foreword -- and already I'm enthralled with the novel and with what lies before me.
Current countdown: 2 days until I leave
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