Week 4: The Hobbit

This week's book:
The Hobbit
By J. R. R. Tolkien

I married a nerd.

He would say he prefers geek, but however you phrase it, he is who he is. He plays D & D, plays videogames, and can quote all of Monty Pythons Holy Grail, you be the judge. He says "I was nerdy before it was cool", which is the truth. I love him, so I buy him Mario shirts or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy shirts whenever I can find them.

That loveable dork's birthday was this past Saturday and so I thought I would read something up his ally, with quests and dragons and all that jazz. We had a copy of The Hobbit and I thought, "perfect, I've never read any of those books, might as well jump in by reading the most light hearted of the series."

I will be honest, it wasn't my cup of tea. Whatever, no big loss. I somewhat had the same response that I did after reading the first Harry Potter book; wasn't for me, but I can see why people could get into it.
So it took me over a week to read it, which is shocking because it's only about three hundred pages, but I finished it. I proudly tell the hubs I finished the book and I can join in all the nerd talk and discuss the themes and plot and whatnot of the story of little people fighting dragons and stealing rings.

Ready for the punchline? He hasn't read it.

I'm not recommending because if you haven't already read it you aren't going to and if you have you don't need me to tell you to. I now know what second breakfast means and understand some more of what my high school crush was talking about  (holy smokes I think nerds have always been my type eeek).

Other than that, I think it's time for scary Halloween themed books. Oh it's only the first week of September...but the pumpkin flavor stuff is out and there is a chill in the air...boo hoo.