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

[dissectionist]

I feel you on the e-readers. I literally only read print now if that’s the only format I can access something in. About 99% of my reading is e-reader now.

[sabotabby]

Same. Which is a little sad as, well, I'm a cover designer. And I appreciate the book as an object. But I tend to only buy physical books if I know the author/made the cover or if there's no other format, and for library books I definitely prefer e-readers.

[dissectionist]

When browsing for my next library read I “shop by cover” (then by title, then description); if the cover doesn’t grab me then it’ll never make it into my basket. So covers definitely still play an important role for me in whether I read a book or not, even as an e-reader.