Is it alright or will it affect my eyesight/vision. I'm reading "Gulliver's Travels."
Reading novels while lying on bed
I'm reading 'The Color of Magic.'
You and I are both already visually impaired, so we have nothing to worry about!
You and I are both already visually impaired, so we have nothing to worry about!
Have you ever seen the very old animated movie cartoon based on your book? I think it was from the 50s. It was amazing.
Haven't. Is it available on youtube?
Dunno, but almost everything is on YouTube, so...
@Rumi, it's fun to lay upside down on a couch with your head draped over the edge while reading.
I feel uncomfortable doing those, Rumi! Are you also visually-impaired like me and Lilly?
Posted by RumiLoveIs there some reason why you do these, Rumi?Posted by LillyPetalAhh yeah =D ..i do that when no one's home lol..
@Rumi, it's fun to lay upside down on a couch with your head draped over the edge while reading.
I keep shifting my postures/places often
Walking and reading
Sitting on the floor against the wall.
On the kitchen counter
the window sill..place.click to expand
Just kidding, Rumi! Lol.
Posted by RumiLoveI was just asking if you are a white woman. Lol.Posted by firebunnyWhy did you hide your post, bunny? I didn't see it.. Now I'm wondering what you wrote 😕
Just kidding, Rumi! Lol.click to expand
Posted by RumiLoveI don't know. I thought I sensed it correctly. What nationality?Posted by firebunnyWhat makes you think so? :oPosted by RumiLoveI was just asking if you are a white woman. Lol.Posted by firebunnyWhy did you hide your post, bunny? I didn't see it.. Now I'm wondering what you wrote 😕
Just kidding, Rumi! Lol.
I'm an Asian too!click to expand
Posted by Ands2016Dude, probably next week. Can you help me find the barber shop? 🙂
Firebunny do you still want to get the haircut? 😄
I read books on candlelight because my folks thought I stayed up too late. Also lantern beneath the blanket.
My eyesight is really good.
My eyesight is really good.
Posted by DamnataThat sounds like a fire hazard. *puts you down for a Kindle to put in your sock instead of the rod*
I read books on candlelight because my folks thought I stayed up too late. Also lantern beneath the blanket.
My eyesight is really good.
Posted by Ands2016Bowl cut?Posted by firebunnyLOL but i'm getting my haircut on wednesdayPosted by Ands2016Dude, probably next week. Can you help me find the barber shop? 🙂
Firebunny do you still want to get the haircut? 😄click to expand
I'm not an eye doctor, but reading at night time can cause permanent vision loss like diabetes.
Posted by starloverI got this book a while back. Thought I'd do some light reading, a crime novel.Posted by DamnataAaahh that is cool
I read books on candlelight because my folks thought I stayed up too late. Also lantern beneath the blanket.
My eyesight is really good.
What are you reading at the moment D?
Your book is in the post....i sent it last Wednesday, so look out for it 🙂click to expand
"The plot follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the fledgling West Coast of the South Island settlement of Hokitika, near New Zealand's goldfields in 1866 to try to make his fortune. Instead he stumbles into a tense meeting between twelve local men, who draw him in to the complex mystery behind a series of unsolved crimes."
However, I was so surprised to find out that it has quotes at the beginning of every chapter with an astro placement at the end of the quotes. I just started reading so I don't know if the chapter is written in the style of the astro placement it began with..but just to see a quote and underneath something like "Moon in Aqua" made me excited.
But then I went on wiki...
Each of the twelve men who comprise the council in the first chapter of the book is associated with one of the twelve zodiac signs. The title of a chapter in which one of these men plays a major role is likely to contain that man's sign. The associations are as follows:
Te Rau Tauwhare (a greenstone hunter): Aries
Charlie Frost (a banker): Taurus
Benjamin Lowenthal (a newspaperman): Gemini
Edgar Clinch (an hotelier): Cancer
Dick Mannering (a goldfields magnate): Leo
Quee Long (a goldsmith): Virgo
Harald Nilssen (a commission merchant): Libra
Joseph Pritchard (a chemist): Scorpio
Thomas Balfour (a shipping agent): Sagittarius
Aubert Gascoigne (a justice's clerk): Capricorn
Sook Yongsheng (a hatter): Aquarius
Cowell Devlin (a chaplain): Pisces
The conventional characteristics associated with each sign serve as a skeleton upon which Catton builds to create full-fledged characters.[5] Te Rau Tauwhare is the only name on the list based on a real person; all others are fictional.[6]
Another set of characters is associated with heavenly bodies within the solar system.
Walter Moody: Mercury
Lydia (Wells) Carver née Greenway: Venus
Francis Carver: Mars
Alistair Lauderback: Jupiter
George Shepard: Saturn
Anna Wetherell: The Sun/The Moon
Emery Staines: The Moon/The Sun
Each of the twelve men who comprise the council in the first chapter of the book is associated with one of the twelve zodiac signs. The title of a chapter in which one of these men plays a major role is likely to contain that man's sign. The associations are as follows:
Te Rau Tauwhare (a greenstone hunter): Aries
Charlie Frost (a banker): Taurus
Benjamin Lowenthal (a newspaperman): Gemini
Edgar Clinch (an hotelier): Cancer
Dick Mannering (a goldfields magnate): Leo
Quee Long (a goldsmith): Virgo
Harald Nilssen (a commission merchant): Libra
Joseph Pritchard (a chemist): Scorpio
Thomas Balfour (a shipping agent): Sagittarius
Aubert Gascoigne (a justice's clerk): Capricorn
Sook Yongsheng (a hatter): Aquarius
Cowell Devlin (a chaplain): Pisces
The conventional characteristics associated with each sign serve as a skeleton upon which Catton builds to create full-fledged characters.[5] Te Rau Tauwhare is the only name on the list based on a real person; all others are fictional.[6]
Another set of characters is associated with heavenly bodies within the solar system.
Walter Moody: Mercury
Lydia (Wells) Carver née Greenway: Venus
Francis Carver: Mars
Alistair Lauderback: Jupiter
George Shepard: Saturn
Anna Wetherell: The Sun/The Moon
Emery Staines: The Moon/The Sun
Justine Jordan, writing for The Guardian, also noted positively that Catton deftly organised her novel:
… according to astrological principles, so that characters are not only associated with signs of the zodiac, or the sun and moon (the "luminaries" of the title), but interact with each other according to the predetermined movement of the heavens, while each of the novel's 12 parts decreases in length over the course of the book to mimic the moon waning through its lunar cycle.[13]
Anyway, my curiosity has been piqued.
… according to astrological principles, so that characters are not only associated with signs of the zodiac, or the sun and moon (the "luminaries" of the title), but interact with each other according to the predetermined movement of the heavens, while each of the novel's 12 parts decreases in length over the course of the book to mimic the moon waning through its lunar cycle.[13]
Anyway, my curiosity has been piqued.
Posted by starlover
Your book is in the post....i sent it last Wednesday, so look out for it 🙂
😄
Posted by Ands2016What would that be?Posted by Damnatapost my moon!Posted by starlover
Your book is in the post....i sent it last Wednesday, so look out for it 🙂
😄click to expand
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