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Wednesday reading
Jan. 18th, 2023 10:58 amRecently finished
Volume 3 of The Department of Truth, written by James Tynion IV, art by a whole bunch of different people. This is a series of basically flashback issues, looking at the history of a few of the main characters. I didn't like it quite as much as the previous volumes, and it annoyed me to discover that the TPBs messed with the original publication order of the comics a bit. I want to experience the story the way it's supposed to be told! Anyway, I'm looking forward to the main story resuming (and concluding, apparently?) in the next volume.
Currently reading
Moby Dick, which it seems I'll be reading to the last syllable of recorded time. (I'm about to start chapter 71.) I'm enjoying it, so I don't mind, but it is rather long. Luckily Melville has a way of knocking your socks off every so often with his sheer brilliance, as in this sentence from chapter 69. The Pequod has just loosed the carcass of the whale it captured and stripped of blubber, and it drifts away: "Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by joyous breezes, that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives."
Reading next
More Moby Dick. Hopefully volume 4 of The Department of Truth, but I need to have the comics shop special order it for me. I want to start House of Slaughter and continue reading through the latest Best Horror of the Year. Also, I bought Rosemary Kirstein's The Steerswoman, which I've been meaning to read for years.
Volume 3 of The Department of Truth, written by James Tynion IV, art by a whole bunch of different people. This is a series of basically flashback issues, looking at the history of a few of the main characters. I didn't like it quite as much as the previous volumes, and it annoyed me to discover that the TPBs messed with the original publication order of the comics a bit. I want to experience the story the way it's supposed to be told! Anyway, I'm looking forward to the main story resuming (and concluding, apparently?) in the next volume.
Currently reading
Moby Dick, which it seems I'll be reading to the last syllable of recorded time. (I'm about to start chapter 71.) I'm enjoying it, so I don't mind, but it is rather long. Luckily Melville has a way of knocking your socks off every so often with his sheer brilliance, as in this sentence from chapter 69. The Pequod has just loosed the carcass of the whale it captured and stripped of blubber, and it drifts away: "Beneath the unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by joyous breezes, that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives."
Reading next
More Moby Dick. Hopefully volume 4 of The Department of Truth, but I need to have the comics shop special order it for me. I want to start House of Slaughter and continue reading through the latest Best Horror of the Year. Also, I bought Rosemary Kirstein's The Steerswoman, which I've been meaning to read for years.
