A Hobbit’s Life for Me.
It’s late on Thursday but I feel the need to post something.
If one is not careful she can get so busy she neglects her blog — or her body and forgets to bathe.
So not to let my blog or personal hygiene suffer, I shall post about how good water pressure makes a shower.
No silly.
I read Mama Kat’s Writing Workshop prompts and thought Yeah, I’ll write on prompt 1.)
1.) What are you reading?
I not a strong reader.
Actually that’s not accurate. I am a pretty good reader, I just don’t usually get to do it until I crawl between the sheets at night.
This usually means one or two pages then ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
It takes me an embarrassingly long amount of time to read a book. I had to start buying them because even the kindest of librarians is not going to let you check out a book for 26 weeks in a row.
I am currently tortoising through . . . The Hobbit.
This is because of my “no see a movie before reading the book” rule.
And after becoming acquainted with Tolkien’s Middle Earth again, I have decided I am rather like a hobbit in a Big Person’s body.
I like my little house. Now it’s not in a little hobbit hole but it has my little hobbitish things that reveal my hobbitish tendencies.
My little coffee maker, my little laptop, my little chair on my porch.
I love to eat bread and jam and sleep and if smoking a pipe wasn’t bad for you, I’d like that too.
But mostly, I like my little hobbit life. Just as they like order and the idea of adventure. But heaven forbid a wizard show up at our door and tell us that is what we have been chosen to do.
Dwarves and wolfs and magical rings. Sure it all sounds crazy fun, till one finds one’s little hobbit self deep in the bowels of a mountain chased by a bunch of goblins. Which are terribly nasty creatures btw.
Who knew? I just thought them little green hermit-like things. Not regular cannibalistic mean-as-a-snake eating beasts.
Yes. Glad that goblins only exist in books (or as far as we know) but I think it might be fun to run into a hobbit.
I’d invite him in for second breakfast and listen to all his tales of dragons and giant eagles.
Just fun conversation.
No adventures for me.
If I ever look out and see a bunch of dwarves standing at my door,
Not answering.
Nope.
What about you? What are you reading?
I have never read The Hobbit, but from your description, I think I’m rather like a hobbit, too. Minus dwarves and wolves and magical rings… I do love a good adventure, but I’m with you, that sounds like a little too much adventure. Right now I’m lucky to be reading an advanced reading copy of a friend’s book that I won on her blog! (The Glass Wives by Amy Sue Nathan, which is firmly grounded in reality)
I love the Hobbit! I first read it when I was about 12 and then again a few years ago. Now I’m reading The Likeness, which is good.
You may not remember, but I was a Hobbit @ Glenridge (ok I was President Hobbit in 9th grade). It may be time for “adult”
me to read that again, followed by the Trilogy, if I can keep my mind from wandering to how hot Viggo Mortensen was in the LOTR movies…
Ha. Now that you mention that Michelle — you and hobbits do ring some bells. I read all the Lord of Rings — each before the movie. I’m finding The Hobbit a much easier read. Maybe it’s because I’ve made the print bigger on my phone and I’m not reading some bitty typesetting. And Viggo was the King — or something. Good grief. That was only a few years ago and my retention is shot. No doubt he had the leading man looks over Frodo. And Gollum. Most definitely over Gollum.
I haven’t read anything good in quite some time.
You know what? I think my husband’s a hobbit too 🙂 But I’m fine with that because they seem cool to hang out with! My oldest is reading The Hobbit for school right now and my husband and I are so excited, hoping she gets into the world of Middle Earth!
Katie — I think my husband would agree that he has had to pull into the adventure most times. Not that I don’t enjoy the idea of adventure — taking the first step is hard sometimes. Maybe my regular life is adventure enough. Anymore would be adventure overload. 🙂
I just started reading Heidi – yep, the kid’s book – as my daughter is reading it for school. Last week I finished slogging through Jane Eyre. The first half took me several months as I kept reading at bedtime also zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. But then, I couldn’t put it down and found myself reading it late late late into the wee hours. As for The Hobbit…never had any interest even though I, too, was a Hobbit in Junior High. 🙂 On my list for this year: Les Miserables, My Antonia, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Have you never read “To Kill A Mockingbird” Mary? My all time favorite. I reread Jane Eyre every now and again. Mr. Rochester, right? And never read Heidi but I remember the movie made me cry as a girl though now I can’t remember the story or why I was so sad.