Reading Wednesday
May. 17th, 2023 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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.
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.
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