Quicksilver | 
I haven‘t been reading much this weekend (since Animal Crossing was released on Friday), but finally getting to posting some recent book hails. I got this bunch of books a few weeks ago from a local thrust store for less than $.50! I‘ve never heard of this Neal Stephenson series, but since the first two books were available in good condition I decided to grab them.
pickI had tried reading this when I was younger, and knew that I had to save it for when I was a little older and wiser. It‘s been sitting and waiting for me for a few years. This was not an easy read, for me at least, as it is complex in it‘s historical facts and events which run very deep. But I‘m glad I finished it, even just for the beautiful writing. I would recommend for fans of the 17th century, Isaac Newton, alchemy, and natural philosophy.
“To out-sail a pirate, he insists, is a sweeter revenge than to out-fight him.”
Thanks to #theunreadshelf I have made up a turn shelf for the first time ever.
“Rage had taken him. Daniel was not especially susceptible to that passion. But he understood, now, why the Greeks had believed that Furies were angels of a sort, winged-swift, armed with whips and torches, rushing up out of Erebus to goad men unto madness.”
“...if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than Alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by it‘s own rules...”
“...if only we could jump fast enough, or had a strong enough wind at our backs, we could all be planets.” 🌏✨ #isaacnewton #gravity #planets
“That is why I never use the microscope any more to look at things that were made by men-the rudeness and bungling of Art is painful to view. And yet things that one would expect to look disgusting become beautiful when magnified.” #nature #microscope #beauty #perspective
Love this. I draw a lot of portraits of people and animals. This quote made me think of the style I strive for while I work on each art piece. I guess I try to draw the same way Isaac Newton did according to this book. 🤔#art #drawing #idealism #alchemy #isaacnewton
This is my fourth start. This time I‘m doing it 😜📚😜📚😜📚
#ManicMonday #LetterQ @JoScho
Book: #Quicksilver
Author: #QuentinBlake
TV Show: #Quincy
Movie: #Quills
Food: #Queso
I'm supposed to be out shopping, and I'm sitting in the parking lot de-stressing by #hidingandreading - yeah, that's how my day went. Gonna take a lot of reading to erase this one, but thankfully this #doorstop is up to it. 😜 Thanks for being my refuge, Littens. 😘
Day 6 of #Riotgrams #DuologiesTrilogiesandMore
Quick pic from hubby's portion of the Library (yes, I let him have a little shelf space). 😁
#readathon wrap-up: 10.5 hours reading (3 of those on audiobook). Finished I'll Be Watching You by Charles de Lint and Frost in May by Antonia White. I listened to half of Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams and I got through a few more pages of the enormous Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson.
All in all, a very enjoyable and successful readathon! Many thanks to the organizers.
This is on my #neverendingTBR. And it has #compasspoints on it! Well, some of them anyway. #day16 #jubilantjuly
King of the doorstop, this guy. I think Quicksilver might actually be the shortest of this trilogy. #riotgrams
One of my most treasured possessions - the Baroque Cycle trilogy. I love this edition! #deckleedge #feistyfeb
Still reading this... it is long and tough going but still think I like it. Mostly this is an excuse to post a picture from the Boston Public Library. I was there two weeks ago.
Today found me reading at Russell House Tavern in Cambridge MA (Harvard Adjacent). Huge coincidence that I am reading Quicksilver while wandering in the same geographic location. Just a couple of hundred years later.
I don't usually post twice in one day, but when you come across a word like this you have to share.
More rink parking lot reading. Waiting for the boy to emerge from hockey practice.
pickRead alike to other long historical series. Dorothy Dunnett. Patrick O'Brian. The series is a couple thousand pages of delicious historical exposition. Newton, Hook and the gang kickstart science. For those who like historical fiction that is fact based and not romantic.
