books

i wouldn't consider myself an avid reader. i like to read and i usually have a fiction, a nonfiction, and an easy book going at the same time which sounds very impressive when said in a condescending tone and when not followed up with, "but it takes about a year to get through all three and i have to do a lot of rereading to remind myself who the characters are."

right now i'm trying desperately to get through a lincoln biography but every time i pick it up i have to skim through the first chapter to remember who all the people are and abraham lincoln hasn't even become a lawyer yet.
 

i just finished a really lousy anecdotal type book which made me want to write my own anecdotal book of rebuttals. it would be titled, "no, you are wrong" and it would be subtitled "and also you're foolish."
 

and then i'm still in the middle of the last of the "lord of the rings" trilogy. this has been going on for a while. i love the sam/frodo relationship. i read an article a few months ago (when i was also reading the last book of the "lord of the rings" trilogy) which argued that sam is obviously in love with frodo. and i was bugged. i mean, i like a good, complex relationship with hints of forbidden romantic tension as much as anybody BUT in this instance i think the brotherly love between sam and frodo is much more interesting. i would argue that brotherly (sisterly) love is one of the purest forms of love. it's unselfish and loyal. the idea that sam goes with frodo on this journey because he loves him like a brother, is loyal to him, and wants nothing in return is a lot more interesting to me than the idea that sam is romantically interested in frodo. it takes some of the selflessness out of it. and it makes sam less interesting. because seriously, how far into mordor would you go with your siblings, no questions asked? way farther than with the guy you have a secret, forbidden crush on.

wait, where was i going with this?

oh. ya. i'm also reading a vanity fair magazine.
i would totally follow joseph gordon leavitt to mordor.