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Plodding through The Lord of the Rings. Approaching the end of The Two Towers - love the description of how Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn 'find' Merryweather and Pippin. My brother-in-law has a biography of Tolkien amongst his books and I was reading some of it any time my husband visited him. Unfortunately, due to my husband having a stroke in July 2020, we have not visited since August 2019. The book gives some very interesting background to the characters in Tolkien's books.

Has anyone seen the movie Tolkien? We watched it as a family a few weeks ago - highly recommendable.

Also reading Edmund Hillary's autobiography, Nothing Venture, Nothing Win. He and his Sherpa were the first to reach the summit of Everest. His love of climbing is evident throughout the book.

Gillian
 
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"The Taste of Conquest - The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice". I've gotten through several books about the history of commodities, it's fascinating what lengths we've always gone to for creature comforts and luxury goods. Money does make the world go 'round, but money goes 'round the world at the behest of taste.
 
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I just finished Jerry Bridges' The Practice of Godliness. After a few introductory chapters, the remaining book gives a chapter each to the Fruits of the Spirit. Each chapter is structured how God exhibits them, how we can act on them, & how we can grow in them. I recommend this book to believers who want to develop godliness, how to practice Christian character in their own lives, with God, & w/ others.

I really like how a lot of the major action happens off-screen & we're told about it when other characters not in the know find out about it. I know this breaks the 'show, don't tell' advice given to aspiring authors, but I think in LotR it adds a flair of suspense not getting a lot of the major action directly. The Flooding of Isengard is a great example.
 
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The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson (13th Century) translated by Anthony Faulkes. A compilation of Norse myths and legends and a textbook for young poets who wished to praise kings. I am looking forward to the publication of Jackson Crawford's translation.
 
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Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt. Controversial author obviously, but I've heard an outline of his idea concerning the friend enemy distinction and how liberal democracy tends to cover up the idea of there being enemies in liberal democratic societies. Will probably read Political Theology after this.
 
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The Populist delusion. Basically it seeks to critique Populist or Democratic notions that the unorganized majority have the real power and say in society. The main thrust of the argument is that power in the hands of an organized minority in society, will always overcome the organized majority of any society.
 
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Dividing the Spoils by Robin Waterfield. It is a brief history of the wars of Alexander the Great's successors (sometimes called the Successor Wars or Wars of the Diadochi).
I wish an account survived of how Seleucus marched the several hundred elephants gifted to him by Chandragupta from what is today Pakistan across Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and all the way to Western Anatolia to fight in the Battle if Ipsus. It would make Hannibal's march across the Alps with 37 elephants seem trivial.
 
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