On books
Book recommendations? Haven’t done that before! I think I have just put too much on my plate when ordering War & Peace from the library while still fighting the whale that is Moby Dick.
I took a break from Moby Dick to read some lighter stuff, Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart trilogy in four parts. It’s not a trilogy abviously. But he did write an excellent trilogy called His Dark Materials which I can highly recommend: adventure, Victorian England, steam punk, parallel worlds, armoured polar bears, witches, and written for children - but so was Lord of The Rings. It’s much sweeter though. The first part, Northern Lights, has been turned into a movie which I quite liked: The Golden Compass. But go ahead and do read the books first. Winter is definitely the right season for this.
Also, libraries: What was I thinking all these years between age 14 and 32 when I wasn’t using libraries? Everything I have ever wanted to read I can just order online and have it in a week’s time delivered to the library branch of my choice such as the one near my work, making for a nice lunch break walk. Anything anyone has ever recommended to me goes on my reading list in my library account to save it for later. And I don’t need to carry boxes of books should I move again.
Back to Moby Dick. It’s 600 pages long, and it takes 230 pages to get to the first whale hunt. It is funny though, but subtle, and a further hundred pages in, the number of ways Mr Melville finds to discuss the topic of whales continues to amaze me.
I took a break from Moby Dick to read some lighter stuff, Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart trilogy in four parts. It’s not a trilogy abviously. But he did write an excellent trilogy called His Dark Materials which I can highly recommend: adventure, Victorian England, steam punk, parallel worlds, armoured polar bears, witches, and written for children - but so was Lord of The Rings. It’s much sweeter though. The first part, Northern Lights, has been turned into a movie which I quite liked: The Golden Compass. But go ahead and do read the books first. Winter is definitely the right season for this.
Also, libraries: What was I thinking all these years between age 14 and 32 when I wasn’t using libraries? Everything I have ever wanted to read I can just order online and have it in a week’s time delivered to the library branch of my choice such as the one near my work, making for a nice lunch break walk. Anything anyone has ever recommended to me goes on my reading list in my library account to save it for later. And I don’t need to carry boxes of books should I move again.
Back to Moby Dick. It’s 600 pages long, and it takes 230 pages to get to the first whale hunt. It is funny though, but subtle, and a further hundred pages in, the number of ways Mr Melville finds to discuss the topic of whales continues to amaze me.
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