Moby-Dick | 
Excited to read this once I‘m done with Emma. A high school student who reads classics for fun, even after reading them for school?? Yes ma‘am.
Excited to read this once I‘m done with Emma. A high school student who reads classics for fun, even after reading them for school?? Yes ma‘am.
UGA's special collections library has a 1st edition of Moby-Dick from 1851.
pan2✨Finished early, because I‘ve been done with it for a while. Whew! I was hoping for more storyline, but all I was really getting was facts on whaling. I‘m going to watch another review to see interpretations of others to try to have some idea of why I read what I did. Either way I read this classic so I can mark it off the bucket list and say: Yes, I did read that. 😬
Introduction by Carl F. Hovde has some great phrasing to consider for this reread. #mobydick #teachersoflitsy
The concept is simple, draft a fantasy football team by way of book like equivalents. Our enjoyment from this silly game is infinite and this time we brought in friend of the podcast and author, Sam Ernst. Enjoy, Sam's well thought out selections, listen in amazement at the wonderfully bonkers team Matt puts forth, and judge Peter's selection of Moby Dick as head coach.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4AHZsIP211yo6o4Y7m1Wsg
pickWhen Melville first began work on Moby-Dick in 1850 several important life events converged to produce his “unconventional medley of narrative forms“ which even sympathetic readers in its day, such as George Eliot's partner George Henry Lewes described as, “a strange, wild, weird book.“ Melville's cumulative time of 4 years at sea, nearly a year & a half of which was spent on a whaling ship, had previously been channeled into works of👇
Well, that took a turn
Yes, Moby Dick is a revenge tale. I'd argue it's as much an existential story.
I just finished the famous, or infamous, Cetology 32 chapter. For years now I have heard people talk about what a slog this chapter was, I was expecting a 40+ page dry scholarly account of the anatomy of whales. Not 13 lively, humorous pages of, "the classification of the constituents of chaos.." I have read more boring world building in a Brandon Sanderson novel. ?
so-soThank goodness for audiobooks, I don't think I would have made it through this chunkster otherwise. More facts about whales and whaling, than an adventure involving whales. The narrator was good though. 🐋
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1. I do! I read other things as well but classics are probably the things I‘ve read the most of in my life if I have to estimate.
2. I think I‘ve read a lot of the biggest classics but I‘ve never been able to face down moby dick yet. Maybe one day.
It‘s Moby-Dick 🐳 season for me. My morning ritual involves reading my chapters and taking notes to discuss with my Honors 11 students. I am enjoying this process more now that it is my second year reading the novel. #teachersoflitsy #transcendentalism #whaling #americanliterature #annotations
The newest edition for my Moby-Dick themed bathroom: a candle from jdandkateindustries on Etsy! This is the only part of the candle I can show without slapping a spoiler label on this post 😆 🐳
They have non-Moby-Dick bookish candles if you‘re more into Pride & Prejudice or The Great Gatsby. I don‘t know, how could anyone *not* just be thrilled with a book heavy on Old Testament-style sermons and extended discussions of whale anatomy!
so-soThis book is several hundred pages about whales. There‘s a little bit about the deranged, obsessive Captain Ahab here and there. Then more whale stuff. (So so so much whale stuff) The infamous Moby Dick gets precious little time on the page. (Sad trombone)
I FINISHED. It was a long, arduous voyage. Melville has his brilliant moments, but it was not really worth the considerable investment of time.
pickI‘m truly surprised that I liked this book. I‘ve started it before but never got past the first chapter. Did it drag in parts? Sure. Did Melville go into too much detail about whaling & whaling ships? Absolutely, yes. But the characters & the story were compelling. I feel like whales in general were taking this journey with me. I found this whale in a store & a sperm whale came up into the bay; first time one has ever come up this far. #MobyDickbr
Beginning my #FeastMode readathon with more of Moby Dick. Less than 100 pages left now! It‘s hard to believe I‘m going to finish this book after over 40 years of avoiding it. Thanks @Clwojick ! Next up will be Allison Moorer‘s memoir, Blood. She and her sister, Shelby Lynne, grew up around here.
“But by far the most wonderful of all Cetacean relics was the almost complete vast skeleton of an extinct monster, found in the year 1842, on the plantation of Judge Creagh, in Alabama.” This skeleton is in a museum at the University of Alabama. #MobyDickbr
“Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I celebrate a tail.” I suspect it‘s chapters like this and the one on the whales‘ heads that turn people away from this book. This week, a sperm whale was sighted in the bay. That‘s never happened in all the time I‘ve lived here. What a coincidence that it happened when I‘m reading Moby Dick! #MobyDickbr
Dug out my Moby Dick pop-up book today! Figured I‘d share some pictures as we read along in the book. First one is when Ishmael meets Queequeg. 😂
#MobyDickBR
Did my nails with a matching theme while I listed to the audiobook. Couldn‘t resist reading a little ahead today. #MobyDickBR
I didn‘t make it to 24 hours, but considering I had to work and couldn‘t listen or read for a good portion of my day, I‘m pretty happy with getting in what reading I did. Most of it was spent listening to Moby Dick. I‘m a little over halfway through the 24 hour audiobook. #TeamStoker #scarathlon #24B4Monday #readathon
Both physical and philosophical adventure
#adventure
#letstravelaugust
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The ending in particular blew me away.
