grafjenreads @grafjenreads

Life is constant change. The only thing that never changes is my love of reading. 📖 Current read: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 41/939 grafjen.com Joined February 2023

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grafjenreads @grafjenreads

4 weeks ago

So... does this sound like anyone you know? "And so, let it be said that this aforementioned gentleman spent his times of leisure—which meant most of the year—reading books of chivalry with so much devotion and enthusiasm that he forgot almost completely about the hunt and…

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4 weeks ago

I read this (quote below) in Don Quixote and seriously thought: 'This might be the unspoken undercurrent of most of my interactions with my AI assistant.' Who, when I mentioned it, said —I kid you not— it “may or may not be the Sancho to my Don. Jury’s still out.” 😂😂😂

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a month ago

"He strung these together with other foolish remarks, all in the manner his books had taught him and imitating their language as much as he could. As a result, his pace was so slow, and the sun rose so quickly and ardently, that it would have melted his brains if he had had any."…

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a month ago

This is for all my fellow readers out there. I just saw it and had to share. A man named Dan Pelzer passed away at 92 and left behind a 109-page document listing every book he read in his lifetime. A life's journey in books! His family scanned it and built a website to share…

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2 months ago

“Oh God! that man should be a thing for immortal souls to sieve through!” ~Moby Dick (Ch. 125) Thought I might read The Terror by Dan Simmons next (I’m not ready to leave the sea behind). I made it two and a half chapters in and thought, “Nah.” Reading Melville (and other…

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2 months ago

Finished Moby Dick. I can’t even right now… Slightly (ship)wrecked. Loved it, btw.

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2 months ago

400 pages into Moby-Dick and I’m full of conflicting awe. The danger and madness of whale hunting is wild. But the killing of such majestic sea creatures? Brutal. (Especially that old blind whale with one fin. 😭) Not gonna lie… at this point, I’m kind of rooting for the…

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3 months ago

“He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge. Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job’s whale round the world, at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals…” Look at…

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3 months ago

Weekend forecast: 90% of reading, 10% chance of everything else.

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3 months ago

Do I need another copy of Moby-Dick? No. Did I get this one? Of course I did. 😂 The design reminded me of my twelve-year-old self. Full of possibility, adventure, and wild ideas. My favorite thing, when I wasn’t running around outside with friends, was to disappear into my room…