bedlamsbard | (no subject) (Reply)

I always forget how fast I can tear through a book when I'm reading it for the first time, like how today I sat down with a book at 7:30 and looked up 568 pages and two hours later at 9:40 or so. (This is one reason why I can do so many rereads and pick up new things each time.) Although this was a weird experience, because the first two books in the trilogy I listened to on audiobooks and this one I borrowed from English Flatmate N. as an actual hardcopy. (It is technically not out yet, ahahahaha, because Waterstone's put it on the shelf before the release date and N. got there before they realized their horrible, terrible mistake. It was not on the shelf today.)

568 pages in two hours is pretty fast even for me, though, and I say this as someone who read A Dance with Dragons and each of the Harry Potter books all in one day. (Not the same day, mind. That would be crazy.)

Sadly I cannot do this with nonfiction, most of the time.

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Today's Hobbit art recs theme is: dwarf babies! As a match to yesterday's, since I pulled three or four out of that post trying to decide what to keep.

Baby Bofur and Bombur by