The fourth ghost

[delphipsmith]

"I am the ghost of Christmas Future Perfect Subjunctive: I will show you what would have happened were you not to have changed your ways!"

Heeeee...

I am nearly caught up on mini_fest, planning to work my way through sshg_giftfest over the weekend (some lovely stories over there, go see!), and eagerly anticipating the opening of hoggywartyxmas in just a few days.

This weekend I hope to also get books shipped out to everyone who claimed one in the Great Book Giveaway of 2014. Still a few left for you last-minute shoppers!

I am embarking on a nice, leisurely reread of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rgins Rings ('rgins' heh heh) as my holiday read. It's been a few years since I did this, and I can feel that it's time again. "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit..."

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[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

I love holiday rereadings -- no pressure, just comfort reads. I usually pick old children's books, like E. Nesbit.

Can't wait for hoggywartyxmas.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit..."

And so it begins... :)

It's been so many years since I've read Tolkien. I was quite dotty about it all as a teenager. Something that really stuck with me was The Fall of Fingolfin, which for all the difficulties of The Silmarillion, I considered to be one of the best passages in English literature.

How wonderful it was to discover many years later that I was not alone in this opinion, and now I see fanfiction retelling of the story all of the place.

"Other hands and other minds" as the old professor said.

[noeon.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha on your third conditional ghost :)

Oh, LOTR - what a good choice! I would like to reread the Dark is Rising books, but I don't think I'll get to them much before January the way this year has gone.