Reading Wednesday

[sabotabby]

 Just finished: Nothing, still reading bricks. I don't know how anyone managed before e-readers.

Currently reading: Maej by Dale Stromberg. About halfway through, and the myriad plotlines are converging and it's all very cool. The detail and complexity is just *chef's kiss*.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville. We have a whale sighting! And Ahab continues to be a horrible old man.

The chapter is a digression in many ways but it's also just absolutely beautifully written. Dizzying prose. Like:

It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow.

Pure poetry.

In other news for some reason the whale-weekly tag on Tumblr has been invaded by cryptocurrency bots. Like. Why??? what do the scammers believe will be accomplished by this? stay out of my whale posts.

Comments

[firecat]

I'm listening to an audiobook of Moby-Dick right now. The narrator is great because he reads it with exactly the right tone to convey "slightly naive, over-excited, slightly tongue-in-cheek" and that's my impression of Ishmael to a T.

[sabotabby]

OMg yes. I can’t really do audiobooks but that’s the vibe.