#HumbleHarvest
#novella
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
The only Melville I've read to date. 😃
#HumbleHarvest
#novella
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
The only Melville I've read to date. 😃
Yeah, I think I need this bag. Or as a poster to put over my face at (ahem) certain times.
https://www.mhpbooks.com/merchandise/bag/
Moby Dick was tied with King Lear as my favorite book read last year. I have never read another book like it before. Bartleby is a jewel of a novella that starts as an employee's admirable quiet rebellion against the extra tasks that are piled on his workload with one of the greatest mottos of 19th C American lit, “I would prefer not to.“ Bartleby soon transforms into a complex story as Bartleby begins to refuse to do more & more with the (cont)
#weeklyreport
I completed 5 books this week. 2 graphic novels, completely different from one another & I didn't care for either one. The other 3 more than made up. The tagged book has been on my TBR for years & was fantastic. The Simenon was great, as was the Alice Notley. In the middle of Ransome's Swallows & Amazons & have been reading random short stories (lately mostly from Bradbury).
@cinfhen
An eerie tale of passive resistance, nonconformism, civil disobedience. Bartelby
efficient employee, forlorn outsider, one day just refuses to carry on at his mindless task, offering his boss this explanation: I would prefer not to. And ends up going to jail.
#SavvySettings Day 23, #Prison. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks