Books: What have you been reading?

[The Darknight Detective]

Will be beginning Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) by May Sinclair tonight on my Kindle.

[Vegan Daddy]

Oh my god...this is a real book. I eagerly await its arrival in the mail.

The Whale: A Love Story by Mark Beauregard

In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end—his last three novels have been commercial failures and the critics have turned against him. In despair, Melville takes his family for a vacation to his cousin’s farm in the Berkshires, where he meets Nathaniel Hawthorne at a picnic—and his life turns upside down.

Edit: The internet lied to me. Behold the real Hawthorne and Melville.

[The Darknight Detective]

Oh my god...this is a real book. I eagerly await its arrival in the mail.

The Whale: A Love Story by Mark Beauregard





Hawthorne(L) and a beardless Melville(R)

Is that a new photo made up to look like an old one? I only ask because those two are not Hawthorne and Melville.

[Vegan Daddy]

Is that a new photo made up to look like an old one? I only ask because those two are not Hawthorne and Melville.

I had the same thought, but I can only find the photo in these two articles about Melville and Hawthorne:

https://rainbowseniors.org/2016/06/2...-a-love-story/

http://www.awb.com/dailydose/?p=2184

The guy on the right does look like a beardless, short-haired Melville. I don't know! I'm not a detective!

[The Darknight Detective]

I had the same thought, but I can only find the photo in these two articles about Melville and Hawthorne:

https://rainbowseniors.org/2016/06/2...-a-love-story/

http://www.awb.com/dailydose/?p=2184

The guy on the right does look like a beardless, short-haired Melville. I don't know! I'm not a detective!

The guy is also balding, which wasn't the case with Melville. He had a thick mane of hair all of his life. I suspect the photo was created to appear to have been made during the mid-19th-century. Not that it really matters either way.

[Vegan Daddy]

He had a thick mane of hair all of his life.

Lucky bastard...

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading the new Ellen Hart mystery A Whisper of Bones. My review of it can be seen HERE!

[The Darknight Detective]

I just began the Miss Marple story What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw (1957) by Agatha Christie today.

[Jackmando7]

I don't know how some of you are able to read so much. If I finish two books in a month I am proud of myself. haha

[The Darknight Detective]

I don't know how some of you are able to read so much. If I finish two books in a month I am proud of myself. haha

Heh. It helps that 1) I can read fast (yet still absorb what I'm reading) and 2) I'm my own boss.

[adkal]

Heh. It helps that 1) I can read fast (yet still absorb what I'm reading) and 2) I'm my own boss.

Rub it in

I try to use my tube journey to and from work to read - 25 minutes each way, generally.

I generally write between 10pm and 2am but, at least one day a week, I'll use that time to do some reading (you can't really write if you don't read, no matter how good you think you might be). If the words aren't coming, I'll read.

[Vegan Daddy]

The Whale: A Love Story by Mark Beauregard

Finished it in one sitting. Good read.

Herman said, “Will you not say it, even once?”
“Say what?”
A sudden gust whipped their hair and fluttered their coattails. Herman’s eyes watered from the cold. Hawthorne waited till the breeze died down to speak, and when he finally did, his words came out in a whisper.
“I love you, Herman.”
Melville thought his whole body might unwind like a yarn puppet. “I love you, too, Nathaniel”
Hawthorne nodded, turned away, and walked down the path into the dell, into the darkness. He did not look back.

Not like this!


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I'll be reading a Poe collection next.

[MajorHoy]

Currently re-reading The Thin Man
by Dashiell Hammett.

(published by Vintage Books - 1972)

[The Darknight Detective]

Currently re-reading The Thin Man
by Dashiell Hammett.

(published by Vintage Books - 1972)

Hammett is great - read that book, The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass Key, and all of his Continental Op short stories.

[Qwerty]

Finished reading all 8 harry potter books. Starting the dark tower on sunday