Something next to normal, that's the thing I'd like to try

I think I may have read it twice all the way through - once for fun, and then once in school. We used to have reading journals, where we'd read (and we could pick our own book) for 1/2 an hour or whatever and then write about what we read, and then trade journals with a friend who would comment on our entry. My friends were always like, "WTF?" because my entries for LOTR were so bizarre.