Reading novels while lying on bed

This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by firebunny on Monday, December 7, 2015 and has 21 replies.

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Posted by RumiLove
Posted by LillyPetal
@Rumi, it's fun to lay upside down on a couch with your head draped over the edge while reading.

Ahh yeah =D ..i do that when no one's home lol..

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.

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Is there some reason why you do these, Rumi?

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Posted by Damnata
I read books on candlelight because my folks thought I stayed up too late. Also lantern beneath the blanket.

My eyesight is really good.

That sounds like a fire hazard. *puts you down for a Kindle to put in your sock instead of the rod*

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Posted by starlover
Posted by Damnata
I read books on candlelight because my folks thought I stayed up too late. Also lantern beneath the blanket.

My eyesight is really good.

Aaahh that is cool

What are you reading at the moment D?

Your book is in the post....i sent it last Wednesday, so look out for it 🙂

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I got this book a while back. Thought I'd do some light reading, a crime novel.

"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."

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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.

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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

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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.