"'And we shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. .... The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that's not they way of it with the tales that relly mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually--their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't." -Sam Gamgee in the Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

I finished reading the Two Towers before the movie version comes out on December 18th (This is what happens when you live in L.A. You memorize movie opening nights because it is vital to living a fulfilled life.). Book Two is the least exciting out of the three, but the ending was totally unexpected. I finished this one in two and a half weeks. I read it almost every free time I had available.

Now I'm reading a non-fiction book. I'm trying to be like Joo and alternate fiction and non-fiction books. It takes me so much longer to get through a non-fiction book. I think part of the reason is because non-fiction books that I read are usually about abstract ideas so there's no mental movie playing in my head.