Our Cast Is Introduced, and We are Underwhelmed...

180 pages in, and we've barely left port...

This week we discussed knowing that we're reading a "Big Book," and therefore expecting more drama out of Ahab as character. We also wondered whether, if we'd read Moby-Dick when it first was published, would we have been bored out of our minds by this point?

Books we reference:

• "A History of the World in Six Glasses" by Tom Standage
• "Banana: the Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World" by Dan Koeppel

Palate cleansers:

• Megan - "Educated: A Memoir" by Tara Westover
• Pete - Watched the film "Burning" based on the Haruki Murakami short story "Barn Burning," which is based on the William Faulkner short story "Barn Burning."
• Jennie - This Land podcast and Galavant TV show
• Alex - Apollo 11: Beyond the Moon podcast and the Apollo 11 documentary film