I need, need, need to finish The Two Towers as soon as possible. Less because of the movie (which I can put off seeing, which I might prefer to see next week, while I’m in New York) than because I haven’t actually finished a book since early September. I’ve actually been thinking about taking the bus to and from work (even though there’s something like a 20-minute commute between the bus stop and my office) just so I’ll have more time to read, when I can’t do much of anything except read.

Maybe I should buy the audio book and listen to it on my drive back to New York this weekend. That’s what helped me get through Stephen King’s The Gunslinger and on to the other books in the series (I’d actually read it years before and didn’t like it, but that’s another story). I just very much want to start reading again. And for all the weeks I’ve been putting it off, half-reading other books or not reading at all, The Two Towers has been keeping me from that. It’s time to move on.