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.
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
“The Immortals” by Jorge Luis Borges
“Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
And an honorable mention to “Super Human” by Nicola Yoon from the collection Fresh Ink that I recently read
In the summer of 2022, I chanced upon a reference to CLR James‘ “Mariners” in Noel Ignatiev‘s posthumously released collection of essays. I was fascinated & so I resolved to read Moby Dick, which took me 4 months during that fall & winter. Almost exactly year after finishing Moby Dick, I‘ve finally read “Mariners” and I truly feel like I‘ve completed some sort of visionary quest. Full circle moment for sure!
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. 😬
(Melville, the sailor, comparing "civilized" peoples and indigenous islanders) A high degree of refinement, however, does not seem to subdue our wicked propensities so much after all; and were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged. - from Chapter 3 of "Typee: A Peep At Polynesian Life"
My dad got me this little book for my birthday, when I was about 3/4 of the way done with Moby Dick. I‘ve been really enjoying reading both contemporary & modern reviews of the book. It‘s interesting to see which themes each reviewer emphasizes, & which lines stand out as universally significant. This was a nice, quick read!
