Books I read in January 2022

The Fellowship of the Ring, JRR Tolkien

I love this book. I mean okay so it takes them absolutely ages to leave the Shire (17 years between Bilbo’s birthday party and when they actually leave? I mean!) and I love Tom Bombadil but I have to read everything he says as if it was prose or else his tune goes through my head for days. This is also not a modern book (it’s not OK that orcs are black-skinned, or that there are no main female characters). But sometimes the prose rises to great beauty ...