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Rereading The Lord of the Rings

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I just couldn't settle on a new book. I went through my Kindle and made some false starts. I went to my wish list on Amazon to see if I had anything I fancied there. Nothing. I was getting frustrated. That was until I went through some of my old books that were stashed away in a box in my wardrobe. And what do you know? I found the book.

Or books, in this case, as I had spotted The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. I first read the books when I was 14 or 15, if memory serves me. I'd forgotten how good they were. I've reread The Hobbit plenty of times before, as I often rank this in my top 5 favourite books, but I'd completely forgotten about The Lord of the Rings. I think it's probably because I've watched the movies so much that the books sort of became lost in my mind.

But anyway, reading them again has reminded me of something. It's reminded me that when we're in the mood to read and we can't figure out what to read next, sometimes it's a good idea to look back at the books you've read before and to pick one out to remind you why you loved it in the first place. I'm a big believer that reading is never reading unless you reread the books you enjoyed most.

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