Moby-Dick | 
Making my way slowly through this classic on the @SerialReader app. It‘s a #ReadHarder Challenge pick for a book that intimidates me. Glad to finally tackle it.
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Making my way slowly through this classic on the @SerialReader app. It‘s a #ReadHarder Challenge pick for a book that intimidates me. Glad to finally tackle it.
pickIt‘s very late, I know. But I‘m happy to report that on the cusp of a new year, I finally finished reading this tome! Full disclosure, if not for the audiobook, I‘m pretty sure I would have DNFd it like the first time I tried to read it. This was a bucket-list read, and I‘m glad to have completed the task in 2020. ✅ My thanks to @Clwojick and #mobydickbr for helping me to see this through! 4/5⭐️
pick#MobyDickBR a powerhouse of a book.Some days you realize you read so many contemporary books that you lose the temperament & head space to read older material.There are many rewards here . I can‘t imagine joining a whaling crew just to realize your Captain at minimum is obsessed & at maximum may be crazy.There is so much symbolism & cultural references here you could study it for a lifetime. Thanks to our host @Clwojick & the readers for grt posts
I‘m a little over 100 pages behind schedule 😳 This week just hasn‘t been a reading week. That said, I enjoy the way Melville writes. 😊 And maybe I‘ll catch-up a bit during the weekend. #mobydickbr #1001books
Speaking of Moby-Dick ... did Ishmael seriously try to convince us that St. George actually fought a whale and not a dragon!??!?! Sometimes I can't deal with this guy 😂
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As I keep up with the #MobyDickBR I remembered I had a book on Scrimshaw in the stash.The quiet, boring time at sea was often spent carving an item for your mom or sweetheart back home.If you made a jagging wheel you might expect someone to bake you a pie to test it out.🥧
I‘m a little behind on the #MobyDickBR but found this cool whale box at my moms house!
Hey guys! I hope everyone had a great first week of reading the #MobyDickBR! 🐋🐳
I‘m throughly enjoying the reread so far. I tend to read ahead or catch up every second day, though I often find it hard to stop at a certain point. Especially when I‘m listening to the audiobook. It‘s easy to get lost in. I love the mystery surrounding Captain Ahab at this time, so he‘s probably my favourite to read about.
I‘m slowly making my way through this classic. For my 2nd attempt, I decided to read my Folio Society edition. Then I came across the audiobook via Audible Stories and decided to tag team my reading. The audiobook is really entertaining! Anyone else enjoying the audio version? It‘s currently a free listen via stories.audible.com. #MobyDickBR
I‘ve been reading Moby Dick for a buddy read, and it‘s going well. I don‘t remember it being so funny the other million times I tried to read it. This seemed true yet tickled me too: “... Heaven have mercy on us all — Presbyterians and Pagans alike — for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.”
I am OBSESSED with all the stunning covers of the various editions! #MobyDickBR
Downloaded the audiobook so I can listen along while I highlight some of my favourite bits for the #MobyDickBR. Also downloaded and added Why Read Moby Dick? to my #NFN2020 TBR. ♥️🐋
I‘m attending the Charleston Conference this week. Sadly, but understandably, it‘s online, but I truly wish I were there right now. Since my conference doesn‘t start for a bit though, I‘m going to start this for the Moby Dick buddy read. #MobyDickbr
Catching up on #3books I haven't read, but should
(Ok, maybe there are only two novels.. but technically the books are 3!) 😅😅
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🔹️ Guerra e pace (War and Peace) by Tolstoy
🔸️ Moby Dick by Melville
I had a great reading month for the #1001books list. I finished a long read of Moby Dick for #LitsyBookClub, and I think this is the book for the month that made me think the most. Memoirs of a Geisha was probably the one I enjoyed the most, but I enjoyed all 5 list books I completed. The other 4 were also enjoyable. July is the first month this year I didn‘t fit in a nonfiction read.
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🎧 Moby Dick - I finished listening to the unabridged novel & read a graphic novel adaptation. #LitsyBookClub
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📖 Morgoth‘s Ring #FellowshipofTolkien
📖 Memoirs of a Geisha
📖 From Striving to Thriving (currently paused while I finish MoaG, which was my June TBR Takedown book)
📖 & 🎧 Love‘s Labour‘s Lost #ShakespeareReadalong
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🎧 A Handful of Dust
pickI finished listening to this book yesterday afternoon, and overall I enjoyed it much more than I expected. Yes, it‘s full of meandering stories and lots of information, but it was also fascinating as a slice of life from American history. I strongly recommend this audio version read by Anthony Heald if you‘re interested in this story but daunted by the idea of reading it.
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Chapter 45 includes the mention of one of the real events that inspired Melville‘s story, the sinking of the whale ship Essex by a whale. I read Revenge of the Whale (young reader‘s edition) years ago when a student shared it and listened to the original In the Heart of the Sea more recently. Both are fantastic nonfiction that made me want to read Moby Dick (which I am enjoying now), and I recommend both.
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The other day, @sprainedbrain pointed out hartshorn in Sense & Sensibility, which I had never really paid close attention to. Then today in Moby Dick I came across this passage where it references narwhal horns sometimes being used to make similar “salts for fainting ladies.” It made so much more sense because of the S&S discussion, and I always enjoy finding interesting connections between books like this.
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I got lots of #audiobook time today as I disked and Dad planted soybeans. After the flooding last year (thus the pile of sticks on the tractor steps) and the way this school year ended, it was good to have a normal day of farm work with my dad.
I‘m enjoying listening to Moby Dick, but I hope to reread most of it in #SerialReader as well and/or listen again to get more of the detail I know I‘m missing.
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This is my TBR list currently. I am planning on reading 2 books a week as a way of decluttering. 1st is Moby Dick. It‘s a bucket list book.
If ever you had difficulty getting through this American classic, you might give this Audible version narrated by Anthony Heald a try. He gets the odd tone just exactly right. 📚💙📚💚
