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.
Inspired by one of the minor characters in “Moby Dick,” this book is a slow burn. The reader journeys across the world as 4 generations of women search for the elusive “Ishmael,” a key to their belongingness. If you enjoy women‘s lit fic with a touch of magical realism, keep this book in mind. It will take you on a slow and intentional journey, which sometimes is exactly what is needed. Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6043190663
Fresh and foreboding! Cold and dark as the depths of the ocean. Follows in theme the path of destruction that conflict and vengeance, violence, wreak, in the original story of Moby Dick. This is a tale told from the perspective of a whale, but it's not simply a retelling of Moby Dick from THAT whale, but rather a reframing of the needless slaughter of a hunting tradition when both whale and man are hunting.
Here's to the benefits of uncertainty.
...do not pretend there is a must. That is how evil is rationalized."
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!
A ship of whales goes searching for Toby Wick.
Holy heck, I enjoyed this book.
“Death is coming. Death I cannot prevent. Large and multiple. But there is one life, perhaps, that I can save. And sure that is how the war ends. Not in cataclysm. But in the small saving of a life. I May not know my own mind, but I know that I will not become a devil.”
This book about whales going after Toby Wick has no right to be this good. I highly recommend.
UGA's special collections library has a 1st edition of Moby-Dick from 1851.