Moby Dick by Herman Melville
★★★★★ | Literature | Print | Own | StoryGraph | Goodreads
A close reading of this classic with the #Booktwitter group. I read this in college, and while I finished it, I wasn’t quite sure what I had read. This time, having many decades to reflect on it, and benefitting from the expert notes of my fellow readers, and understanding better the brutal facts of mortality and existence, I drank this in, entranced. Maybe this one is only meant to be read later in life.
When I feel that “damp, drizzly November in my soul,” I’ll return once more to this incredible novel.
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