The Fellowship of the Ring

お久しぶりです。元気にしてます。
仕事場での役職が微妙に代わり猛烈に忙しいのと、仕事関連で地元の学校で夜間授業をとり始めたので（１教科だけなんだけど、週二日）あまり家ではやる気がおきません。

そんなことより。
今年の目標は、というかいつも目標にしていてあまり達成できてないんだけど、一月に１冊は本を読むということ。
そんな今年の１冊目は、映画「ロード・オブ・ザ・リング」の原作小説、「指輪物語」の第１巻、「旅の仲間」です。

映画を何度も見ているので話がわかってるのもあって、さくさくっと、私の中ではかなり早いスピードの３週間で読みきれました。（図書館の貸し出しが1回3週間）
今日図書館に本を返しに行ったら、ちょうど予約していた第2巻の「二つの塔」が借りられて、ナイスタイミング。

Phew, it's been a while. I'm doing just fine.
With my job duties changing slightly and taking a class at a local community college for work 2 nights a week, I just have no disposable mental energy to do anything at home these days.

Anyways.
This year's goal, well, it's always been my goal for that matter, is to read one book per month. I wish somebody invites me to a book club. Being a book club really forces me to read and read wider variety of books.
My January book is The Fellowship of the Ring, of course from The Lord of the Ring series. I have watched the Peter Jackson movie adaptation many times so I'm familiar with the story so it was much easier to read than I originally expected, and I was able to finish it in 3 weeks, which is pretty fast for my slow reading ability.

Having watched the movie helps picturing the world of Middle Earth. I like the pretty straight forward writing style too, since I was expecting the book to be written in some old English, like it is in, say, Sherlock Holmes. But I guess, after all, Tolkin is a modern writer.

When I went to the library to return the book, the Two Towers that I had put on hold was also ready to be picked up today, so it was a perfect timing. Let's see if I can finish the second book in February...