WHAT I AM READING THESE DAYS

I always return to the classics when I am in the reading mood. I don't read many contemporary authors, mainly dead ones because they have survived for centuries and I don't know, and don't want to bother spending time with live ones to find out if they are worthy of survival. So, I am reading one of my all time favorites, Herman Melville's Moby Dick. It is like sipping 200 year old vintage wine. Yes, I often skip chapters, for Melville took the freedom, as every writer wants to take the freedom, to ramble on and on about a subject that is dear to her: whales. One can't do it these days because Time in our times is so horribly squeezed.